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.

Mary Anning

Nanny oh the Maroons

Another real superwoman

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanny_of_the_Maroons

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Sophie Scholl - of the White Rose movement, she opposed the Nazis and distributed anti war leaflets, she was convicted of high treason and guillotined, age 21.

Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl - they helped hide Anne Frank and her family.

Noor Inayat Khan - a British spy during WW2, she worked with the French Resistance before being betrayed to the Nazis, and executed at Dachau concentration camp aged 30.

Donna Strickland - she won the Nobel prize for physics in 2018.

Maryam Mirzakhani - the only woman and first Iranian to win the Fields medal in mathematics.

Vera Caslavska - Czech gymnast who had to train in the forest for the Mexico Olympics following the Soviet invasion of her country.
Her silent protest at the medal ceremony lead to her being restricted from further competitions and forced into retirement

Dame Whina Cooper - the instigator and leader of a hikoi (march) that was instrumental in Maori in NZ regaining their land and ensuring the Treaty of Waitangi was treated as a living and founding document.

Helen Clark - a former PM of NZ who was (and is) a strong, principled leader, and Administrator of the UN Development Programme from 2009 to 2017.

Jacinda Ardern (natch'), not just for her leadership in the Pandemic Crisis, but also her leadership after the March 15 Terrorist attack.

Pink. She's a great role model for being yourself, but not being an arsehole while being yourself. She seems an incredible parent, also.

The White Mouse, AKA Nancy Wake.

And so many of the usual suspects who have already been named!

(I never realised what an incredible statistician and mathematician Florence Nightingale was until recently).

Hilda Hudson (mathematician amongst other talents...)

A couple of pioneering aviators not mentioned:
Amelia Earhart
Pauline Gower

Everyone I was going to list is there apart from Grace Darling.

Angelina Jolie

Helen Sherman. The first Briton in Space!

Dolly Parton.

In a Country Music 'Man's World' she made it. She kept the rights to her songs.

She adopts to changing tastes and styles of music.

She plays a multitude of instruments.

Moved into films when country music became less popular.

She regularly duets with other women and never puts them down.

She always smiles and never complains in public.

Now she has set up the Dolly Parton Imagination Library giving books to children to get them reading.

She set up Dollywood theme park and employs family, friends and locals to give them jobs.

And she can belt out a tune.

Truly inspirational.

Jacinda Adern
Serena Williams
Beyonce

Not super women, just awesome women doing their thing

Hedy Lamarr
Octavia Butler
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Michelle Obama
Rosalind Franklin
Caroline Criado Perez

Lady Justice Hale
Lady Justice Butler-Sloss

(Guess what I do for a living!)

Jasvinder Sanghera - founder of Karma Nirvana

Hypatia, female mathematician way ahead of her time