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Esther Morris
Fifty years before women got the federal right to vote, this legal agent became “the terror of all rogues.”
Michele Roberts
Michele Roberts, N.B.A. Union’s New Leader, Confronts Gender Barriers 'My past,' she told the room, 'is littered with the bones…
DeDe Phillips
She was attacked while putting up a “Women who behave rarely make history” bumper sticker on her truck. No, seriously.
Kristin Armstrong
Armstrong is the only cyclist to win three consecutive Olympic gold medals in the same discipline. Though a few other cyclists have won more medals in more disciplines, Armstrong also won while older than all of them, turning 43 the day after her win.
Hanan Al Hroub
On March 13 Al Hroub won the second Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize for her work with children that have been exposed to violence.
Katherine Folsom
She started skateboarding to get closer to her family. Now she competes against the best in the world as one of the oldest skaters, and only women, on the field.
The Gulabi Gang
An all-female vigilante group wanders rural India, teaching women self defense and confronting abusive husbands.
Tanya Smith
Tanya Smith practices Historical European Martial Arts--like fencing, but instead of a lightweight rapier she uses a three-pound longsword that's almost as tall as she is. To entice more women into the sport she organized a tournament by women, for women, called Fecht Yeah.
Florence Finch
During World War II, this woman quietly undermined Japan's occupation of the Philippines, and was tortured for it. Then she quietly raised a family in the United States.
Holly Maniatty
Famous for her spirited interpretation of profanity-heavy rap songs, this woman has gone viral many times for her performances.
Kim "Geguri" Se-Yeon
The first woman in the Overwatch e-sports league had to go through hell to prove herself.
1077th Anti-Aircraft Regiment
When Nazi tankers invaded Stalingrad in 1942, they fought shot-for-shot against unlikely opponents - a squadron of girls barely out of high school.
Jess Wade
She wrote 270 Wikipedia articles in a single year -- “I had a target for doing one a day, but sometimes I get too excited and do three.”
Clementine Paddleford
Paddleford spent years writing about food in America, traveling all over the country (and the world) to report on regional cuisine.
Oksana Chusovitina
Chusovitina will be competing in the 2016 summer Olympics--her seventh Olympics to date--at age 41, making her the oldest female Olympic gymnast ever.