The month of March is designated as International Women’s Month, so women and their historical contributions throughout the world should be recognized and celebrated.
Women are typically the primary caregivers of children and elders in every country worldwide. According to a recent study by Global Volunteers, women always help to reorganize society when political and economic changes occur while helping their families adapt to the new reality.
Throughout history, women have fought for equality and justice. They also generated long-lasting changes in education, art, architecture, science, and social work, benefiting entire communities or even entire nations for centuries.
For that reason, women started to gain more representation in different areas. For example, in areas like culture and science, according to UNwomen, women obtained “intellectual achievement[s] and academic, cultural, and scientific advances that have been recognized by winning the Nobel Prize on 53 occasions from 1901 to 2019.”
Today, women are preparing themselves to be channels of change where they are to create a better society for future generations to come, and you can be the next woman to revolutionize the world for a good cause.
Here are five inspirational women who transformed the world with their contributions:
Malala Yousafzai
We should celebrate Malala because “she stands for integrity, bravery, justice, and inclusion. She fights not only for her own rights but also for the rights of others,” according to an article written by Tom Webb from xandertalent.
When Malala Yousafzai was fifteen years old, a Taliban member shot her, and she survived.
Yousafzai is a human rights activist who advocates for female education. Also, at a young age, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Today, she is the perfect example of a leader who showed that gender, age, and difficult circumstances are not barriers to women’s ability to make significant contributions to society.
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo is an inspirational figure for artists, individuals with disabilities, and bisexual women. She is a notable figure in literature and art studies.
She is a woman who “developed multiple disabilities, such as polio and spinal and pelvis damage from a car accident when she was a child. After that, she became a world-renowned self-portrait painter,” reported an article written by Lauren Appelbaum from respectability.
Frida Kahlo is portrayed as a feminist symbol in modern society because, “her paintings touch on female issues such as abortion, miscarriage, birth, breastfeeding, and much more,” according to an article from soundoflife.
Maya Ying Lin
Maya Ying Lin is a creative, courageous, and empowering woman who serves as an inspiration for women to keep trying and never give up on their passion.
She is well known for her art or architectural work in both private and public places.
When she was 21 years old and in her last year of college, she “won the design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC,” reported an article from Arts.
We need to celebrate this incredible woman for her artistic, brave, and unifying personality, which makes her a role model for women who want to persevere in their passion to achieve big goals.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks, a well-known representative of the Civil Rights Movement, worked to ensure that women of color could ride in the same front seats of buses as white women and men.
According to a nps article, Rosa Park is “the mother of the civil rights movement. She invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.”
Her bravery is concrete proof that tenacity may win over injustice. She is an inspiration for women to fight for what is right and never give up until they achieve what they aspire.
Rosa Parks should be celebrated for setting the stage for equality and better opportunities for the black community.
VALENTINA TERESHKOVA
Valentina Tereshkova was the first and youngest woman to become a cosmonaut and fly to space on a solo mission.
In an article from airandspace, it was reported that “Tereshkova orbited the earth once every 88 minutes by operating her spacecraft with manual controls. Tereshkova parachuted from the Vostok 6 after re-entering the earth’s atmosphere and landed about 612 km (380 miles) northeast of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, in central Asia.”
Valentina Tereshkova taught women to surpass the limitations that society presents for them and get to places where they can shine by showing that they can do unimaginable things like men have. She is admired for her bravery, perseverance, and feminist ideals on gender equality.
We need to celebrate her for opening the door for other women to enter the world of science and to aspire one day to travel to space.
