Emmeline Pankhurst was a prominent British political activist who is remembered for the famous UK suffragette movement and her advocacy for women’s right to vote. She is named among the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century by Time. She is believed to have shaped the idea of women being an important part of society and women being capable of changing how it works. Many disagreed…

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American female activist famous for initiating the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. She is referred to as “the first lady of civil rights,” and “the mother of the freedom movement” due to her active role in advocating for the rights of the black people in the US.

Louise was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. She…

Marie Skłodowska Curie was a Polish woman who became a naturalized-French citizen. She was a chemist and physicist who won the Nobel Prizes due to her work. She was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw in the Kingdom of Poland and was named Maria Salomea Skłodowska. Both her parents were teachers. Her father, Wladyslaw, was a math and physics instructor. Her mother, Bronislawa, died of Tuberculosis…

Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike was the head of the Sri Lankan government between 1960 to 1965, 1970 to 1977, and 1994 to 2000. She was born on 17th April 1916, at the Ellawala Walawwa in Ratnapura, in British Ceylon, to an aristocratic Kandyan family. Her mother was a reputed Ayurvedic physician while her father a politician. She went to Catholic, English-medium schools but though remained a Buddhist….

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was an Indian leader who became prime minister of India between January 1966 to March 1977, and January 1980 till her assassination in October 1984. She was the first and only female prime minister of India. Born to former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, she took part in the Indian politics and was a central figure of the Indian National Congress. Nehru is to date…