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Christine de Pizan was born in 1364 and died around 1430. Although she was Italian, she is believed to be the first woman writing in French to earn money from her philosophical and poetic writings.

Olympe de Gouges, born in Montauban in 1748 and died guillotined in 1793 in Paris. French woman of letters, who became a politician, she is considered as one of the pioneers of French feminism, especially after the publication in 1791 of the Declaration of the Rights of Women and Citizens.

Clara Zetkin was born in 1857 and died in 1933. She was a German teacher, journalist and politician. It was in Copenhagen, in 1910, that she made her proposal for a Women's Day, she is therefore the initiator.

Emmeline Pankhurst is a British feminist politician. In 1903, she and her two daughters co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union, a group of British women. Despite criticism, Emmeline Pankhrust's activism is widely regarded as the decisive factor in securing the right to vote for British women.

Emily Gould, born December 19, 1879, died December 4, 1946, was a journalist and women's rights activist in Geneva, and an important figure in Swiss and international feminism. After completing courses in history and philosophy in college, she joined a feminist association called the Women's Union.

Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908 and died in Paris in 1986, was a French philosopher, novelist, memoirist and essayist. She was an important feminist theorist and participated in the women's liberation movement in the 1970s. Her book The Second Sex is the most important contemporary feminist philosophy. One of her famous works: "One is not born a woman: one becomes one.

Simone Veil, born in Nice in 1927 and died in Paris in 2017. In 1974, she was appointed Minister of Health by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, who entrusted her with the mission of passing the law no longer discriminating against voluntary interruption of pregnancy (abortion).

Malala Yousafzai is born on July 12, 1997. She became famous in 2009, when she was only 11 years old, She shared her views on education and life under the Taliban and was the victim of an assassination attempt by the Taliban in 2012. She was seriously injured. In 2014, when she was only 17 years old, she won the Nobel Peace Prize, making her the youngest recipient in the history of the award.

As a journalist Gloria Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1971, a liberal women's magazine that shed the sexist narratives of other women's publications of the time. She is a strong supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment and actively speaks out and organizes on women's social issues.

Former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama has engaged in advocacy work for young women, education and nutrition since leaving the White House.

Emma Watson is an actress who advocates for gender equality. In 2016, this determined woman publicly opposed sexual assault on British college campuses in a speech at the United Nations.