6 Women who changed the world

 From Marie curie, an incredible scientist to Indira Gandhi, an outstanding politician, women have shown their talent in each and every field. Marie curie, Michelle Obama, Mother Teresa, and Florence Nightengale have given this world a lot for sure but there are some other women who are not recognized but have done great things which made the world to know what are women capable of.

So here are 6 women who changed the world and showed the world women are no less than men in each and every field.

1. Wanagari Maathai, 1940-2011

Professor Wanagari Maathai was an environmentalist and is responsible for founding the green belt movement. Her tireless effort saw 51 million trees planted in Kenya. Maathai also was the first woman in east and central Africa to earn a Ph.D. She was an inspiration as her green belt movement was not only related to planting trees. The other objectives of this movement were to have women from rural Kenya generating income at the same time doing good for the environment.

She received a noble prize in 2004 for her work In sustainable development.

2. Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858-1928

Emmeline Pankhurst founded the women's society and political union and the members were called the suffragettes and Their purpose was to gain voting rights for women in Britain. She was mother to five children and wife to a lawyer Richard Pankhurst who was a great supporter of his wife's work. Emmeline was arrested 13 times for her fights to gain voting right for women. She sadly couldn't live to see her wish come true. She died the same year in which the parliament gave women voting rights on 2nd July 1928.

3. Sacagawea, 1788-1812

Sacagawea was only 16 when she played an important role as a member of Lewis and Clark's discovery. The trip took place between 1804 and 1806 and Sacagawea traveled thousands of miles while carrying her newborn baby on her back. Her role was to act as an interpreter and ease any suspicions of tribes they might encounter during their journey. The aim of the trip was to establish cultural contact with native Americans. 

In the early 20th century, the National American women's suffrage association used her as a symbol of woman's worth and independence. 

4. Lise Meitner, 1878-1968

Being a Jewish female and a woman scientist were all disadvantages that physicist Lise Meitner had to endure. Meitner had a love for maths and science from the age of 8. In pre-1939 physicists believed nuclear fission impossible, the process of large atoms splitting into smaller atoms is what makes a nuclear power plant and a nuclear bomb a possibility. Meitner proved them wrong described the process as fission and also provided a concrete explanation on how it was possible.

She worked closely with Otto Hahn. But when it was time to publish the work he left her out of the papers because featuring a jew and a woman would end his career. Meitner was nominated for noble prize repeatedly but never won the award instead Otto Hahn won a noble prize in chemistry in 1944 for nuclear fission. Her exclusion was deemed unjust by many scientists and later at the age of 87, she was awarded the prestigious Enrico Fermi award alongside none other than Otto Hahn. 

5. Benazir Bhutto, 1953-2007

She was the 11th president of Pakistan(1993-1996) and the first woman to head a Muslim country. During her term as president of Pakistan, she ended the military dictatorship in her country and fought for women's rights. She was assassinated in a suicide attack in 2007.

6. Billie Jean King, 1943

Billie Jean king the US tennis legend and the winner of 20 Wimbledon titles, famously beat Bobby Riggs in 1973 for a $100,000 prize in "the battle of the sexes" after he said that men were superior athletes.