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Benazir Bhutto

First woman of an Islamic country to serve as Prime Minister

Tags: Islam, Pakistan, prime minister

Star tennis player who helped integrate athletics and increase women's pay

Tags: gender equality, GLBT, tennis

Photographer whose work questions gender norms and cultural assumptions

Tags: artist, film, photography

At the age of 15, she tried to integrate the bus system and break down segregation

Tags: civil rights, Montgomery bus boycott

First woman elected to Michigan's House of Representatives

Tags: female politician, Michigan House of Representatives, Native American politician

Michigan's first female African-American state senator

Tags: black female state senator, female politicians, Michigan senator

Labor activist whose work creating the United Farm Workers Union gave a disenfranchised group of laborers a voice in work relations

Tags: civil rights, United Farm Workers, women's rights

Ambassador and reformer, she advocated greater rights for women and minorities

Tags: first lady, Human Rights, United Nations, women's rights

First woman to graduate from medical school in the US

Tags: female doctor, medicine, physician, science

Leader of the 19th century women's rights movement

Tags: 19th amendment, declaration of sentiments, history of woman suffrage, suffrage