Important Women in History

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I believe that women aren't recognized enough. I can name so many men that I have been taught by my teachers, but I really can't name all that many women. This is a list of important women threw out history.

Jane Addams
Susan B. Anthony
Marie Antoinette
Saint Joan of Arc
Aspasia of Miletus
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Jane Austen
Ella Baker
Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike
Clara Barton
Florence Bascom
Simone de Beauvoir
Aphra Behn
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Shirley Temple Black
Elizabeth Blackwell
Bonnie Kathleen Blair
Rosa Bonheur
Louise Arner Boyd
Pearl S. Buck
Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo
Rachel Carson
Catherine the Great
St. Catherine
Chien-shiung Wu
Cleopatra
Juana Ines de la Cruz
Marie Curie
Agnes George de Mille
Emily Dickinson
Amelia Earhart
Marian Wright Edelman
Eleanor of Aquitane
Beatrix Jones Farrand
Edith Flanigen
Anne Frank
Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Betty Naomi Friedan
Elizabeth Gurney Fry
Margaret Fuller
Indira Gandhi
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Judith E. Heumann
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Ariel Hollinshead
Mary Phelps Jacob
Helen Keller
Billie Jean King
Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Susette La Flesche Tibbles
Maya Lin
Juliette Gordon Low
Anne Sullivan Macy
Wilma Mankiller
Barbara McClintock
Catherine de Medici
Lise Meitner
Rigoberta Menchu Tum
Maria Montessori
Mother Theresa
Baroness Murasaki Shikibu
Florence Nightingale
Georgia O'Keeffe
Vijaya Lakshimi Pandit
Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Eva Peron
Christine de Pizan
Pocahontas
Queen Anne
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Isabella
Queen Victoria
Jeannette Rankin
Sally Ride
Alexandra Romanov
Eleanor Roosevelt
Sakajawea
Margaret Sanger
Sappho
Rose Schneiderman
Gloria Steinem
Lucy Stone
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Russell Strong
Bertha von Suttner
Emma Tenayuca
Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolayeva Tereshkova
Margaret Thatcher
Alexandrine Pieternella Francoise Tinne
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Tz'u Hsi
Yoshiko Uchida
Phyllis Wheatley
Mary Wollstonecraft
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

So?

There is likely not enough buffer space dedicated to this website to simultaneously contain a comprehensive list of Important Men in History and the website itself.

Not dissin' ... just sayin' ...

The problem with many of the important women is that their names are not included in historical records.

I give the example of the Influenza of 1918/19.

50 Million people perished from this pandemic in 1918/19. (675,000 just in the US alone, when the population was a 1/3 of what it is today). Of those that developed this influenza and survived it was oft noted that they received good nursing care. Many of those that provided this good nursing care were unpaid caregivers (family members, friends, neighbous). Most of these were women. There were many women who risked their lives to care for people in make shift hospitals, they did not know and understand all the means of transmission, but they knew that they were taking great risks by tending to the sick and dying of their homes and communities.

These heroes go unnamed.

(My source for this information is the documentary "We Heard the Bells" and it is available on youtube for those interested).

Another thing to consider regarding who is notable. In femme's original list, there is mention of Gloria Steinem. She is notable, but she was notable because men took interest in her. Slapping on a pair of bunny ears and posing as a Playmate in Hugh Hefners club caused some interest when her story was published. I'm not saying that Gloria Steinem wasn't intelligent and interesting in her own right. However, I DO wonder why Betty Friedan (author of The Feminine Mystique) was not included in this list of notable women. She was actually the groundbreaking feminist (but not as glamourous as Gloria Steinem and not as noted by the media (especially in the 1960s) which was controlled by men.

So, my point is that there are a great deal of notable woman. It is just that their names are not recorded in history either because their contributions are completely overlooked or they just did not appear sexy enough to be more considered "important".

Maybe it is time to change this...

Let Me add:

Mary Shelly - Frankenstein
Grace Hopper - inventor Flow Matic language which inspired COBOL
Annie Oakley - Sharpshooter