AIBU to ask fo your list of Super Women?

[Stinkycatbreath]

I'm one of the leaders in guide group and I know I can Google this but I want the opinion of real people. The girls are 11-15 and are a mixture of White, Black and Asian British (this is relevant) As part of an activity I would like to introduce them to some real life female superheroes that kind of reflect them so a good variety women from different back grounds who have achieved great things. I don't even mind if they are dead or alive but inspirational is key. Im thinking scientists , speakers, political figures or actors /singers. Not women who have become famous for their looks (although if they are it doesn't matter)but for their intellect or bravery or their contribution to the world.....so no Kardashians. Thank you for your help.

Hibo Wardere, who campaigns against FGM.

Dr Nicola Williams, leader of Fair Play for Women.

Stephanie Davies-Arai of Transgender Trend, working to save kids.

Lesbian rights campaigner Dr Julia Long.

JK Rowling.

Rosa Parks - American Civil Rights. Not through violence, but through persistence.
Florence Nightingale - Crimean War nurse
Mary Seacole - Crimean War nurse. Lesser known but just as inspirational.
Audrey Hepburn - Actress. I loved her beauty and style. She came from a wealthy semi aristocratic background, but suffered hardship through WW2 with hunger. She did a lot of philanthropic work for UNICEF in her later life.
NOT Mother Theresa. Heard she denied pain relief to suffering patients as to suffer was beautiful/what god wanted. Also possibly 'kept' donations? Happy to be corrected on this, but if true, that's simply vile.

Malala Yousefzai

Rosa Parks
Pankhurst
Rhonda Rousey (opened the door for the women's fight scene to be treated as equal)
Florence Nightingale
Billie Holliday (if nothing else, just for Strange Fruit)
Michelle Yeoh (if Jackie Chan in his prime rates you as an equal)
Boudicca
The women of Bletchley Park (Joan Clarke et al)
Grace Hopper
Caroline Herschel
Marie Curie
Delia Derbyshire (Dr Who theme)
MC Lyte/Roxanne/Roxanne Shante (very old school rappers)
Diana Rigg (Avengers for being kick ass and game of thrones for gratituitous scene stealing)
Honor Blackman
Ginger Rogers.
Margaret Thatcher
Queens Elizabeth 1 & 2
Queen Victoria.

Just off the top of my head.

Irene Sendler. She was a polish nurse and social worker during WW2. She rescued 2500 jewish children from the ghettos and took them to safety, risking her own life to do so.

Irena Sendler . Amazing courage and Bravery

Ooh cross post ^

Germaine Greer
Magdalen Berns
MIA (singer)
Emily Pankhurst
Julie Bindel (most of the time

Great minds, @Sunshinesky1981

Frida Kahlo. She overcame huge physical pain to create her art and she stayed true to herself, challenging social norms at the time.

Some excellent suggestions people thank you I am furiously looking at biographies of people. Rosa Parks is one of my all time favourites!

I am amazed at how many people can just rattle this off. Irena Sendler is going on as is JK Rowling and Malala Yousafzai.

Mary Anning - famous fossil collector who wasn’t recognised properly in her lifetime despite discoveries of novel species because she was a woman and uneducated. There is now a whole room full of the fossils she discovered in the Natural History Museum.

Jameela Jamil - started the iweigh campaign which is about celebrating women for their achievements rather than their bodies.

Elizabeth 1.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - we should all be feminists and other essays. She is incredible.

Hedy Lamarr

Mary Phelps Jacob

Melitta Bentz

Beyonce used that quote in her groundbreaking Homecoming Coachella performance so your young ladies would probably really enjoy it.

Beyonce
Malala
Jo Cox
Simone Billes
Caroline Criado Perez
Maya Angelou

Oprah Winfrey
Ellen Degeneres.

Michelle Obama?

Definitely Malala

Greta Thunberg

Helena Normanton. The first woman to become a silk.

Rosalind Franklin - she originally discovered the double helix structure of DNA

Mary Anning

Elizabeth Blackwell - first female physician/doctor

Sirimavo Bandaranaike - first female prime minister in the world (Sri Lanka)

Indra Nooyi, Anjali Sud, Ruchi Sangvi, Jayaben Desai

The women in the film and book "Hidden Figures" about black women working at NASA in early years of space programme. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock space scientist