10 amazing women who changed the world we live in today

We recently celebrated March 8, International Women's Day, which exists in the name of the struggle for women's rights around the world. Throughout the history of mankind, many strong women have had to solve serious problems on their own, fight for their dreams and their passion, for equality and solidarity among men. Their courage, character, determination in many respects formed the world in which we now live. And we cannot but remember these bold and amazing women.

Here is a list of the brightest women who selflessly went their hard way to make the modern world a better place.

Irena Sendlerova is a woman who rescued about 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto.

Malala Yusufzai is a 19-year-old Pakistani activist who survived a severe wound to the head of one of the Taliban fighters and became the youngest Nobel Prize winner.

A woman beats a neo-Nazi with her handbag in Veksjo, Sweden, on April 13, 1985.

Marie Curie is a Polish experimental scientist known for her research on radioactivity. The first woman to receive the Nobel Prize and the only one to receive it twice.

At the age of 10, Nujud Ali did not tolerate her husband’s abusive attitude, divorced him and destroyed the traditions of the tribe.

A 106-year-old woman who defended her home in Armenia with a rifle in 1990.

Margaret Hafield was director of software engineering for NASA's Apollo space program, 1969.

These women were firefighters at Pearl Harbor in 1941.

A Muslim woman covers the yellow star of her Jewish neighbor with her own burqa to protect her from persecution, 1941.

An activist advocating for women to vote, Annie Lampkins, at Little Rock City Prison, July 10, 1961.

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