Benazir Bhutto
Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
First woman of an Islamic country to serve as Prime Minister
Amy French
Image: Wiki Commons
Billie Jean King
Tennis professional
Star tennis player who helped integrate athletics and increase women's pay
Amy French
Image: Wiki Commons
Cindy Sherman
Photography
Photographer whose work questions gender norms and cultural assumptions
Amy French
Image Source: http://gawker.com/550940/cindy-sherman
Claudette Colvin
Civil Rights activism
At the age of 15, she tried to integrate the bus system and break down segregation
Amy French
Image Source: Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times (left) The Montgomery Advertiser, via Melanie Kroupa Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux (right)
Cora Reynolds Anderson
Politics
First woman elected to Michigan's House of Representatives
Amy French
Image: Michigan Women's Hall of Fame
Cora Mae Brown
Michigan politician
Michigan's first female African-American state senator
Amy French
Image source: www.blackpast.org
Dolores Huerta
Labor and women's rights activism
Labor activist whose work creating the United Farm Workers Union gave a disenfranchised group of laborers a voice in work relations
Amy French
Image: Wiki Commons
Eleanor Roosevelt
Governance
Ambassador and reformer, she advocated greater rights for women and minorities
Amy French
Image Source: Wiki Commons
Elizabeth Blackwell
Medicine
First woman to graduate from medical school in the US
Amy French
Image: Wiki Commons
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Woman Suffrage
Leader of the 19th century women's rights movement
Amy French
Image: Wiki Commons