For International Women's Day 2022 Nominate

I think there will be loads of women who have done wonderful things but because of their sex that impeded them in past times and still in many parts of the world. So many operated under the radar somewhat, and dare I say it, in any case women don't always make as much noise about their achievements as men in some cases.

I have read about that brave young woman, Sophie Scholl, that picture you posted of he Doodledog is extraordinary it could almost be a young woman today.

Two little known brave contemporaries of hers Noor Inayat Khan a British espionage agent and British resistance agent in France during 2nd World War as was Violette Szabo a British/French agent. Sadly both women captured tortured and were to die in concentration camps before the end of the war.

Prince Philip's mother Alice of Battenberg was also recognised for her bravery in sheltering Jewish families during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

From today's world

Erin Pizzey for all her work with women suffering from domestic violence and setting up a women's refuge for them.

Malala for her sheer guts and determination in the importance of educating girls and women

Ayaan Hirsi Ali activist, feminist, author, scholar. An advocate for the rights and self determination of Muslim women. Fierce critic of female genital mutilation which she herself had inflicted on her when she was five years old.

J K. Rowling for her philanthropy and for capturing the imagination of my children's generation.

Back in time

Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace trailblazers of their time.

Boadicea for proving that women can also fight their corner! .

Eleanor Coade She invented and sold a sort of artificial stone. It was widely used in sculptures and building decorations. This was in the 1700s. English Heritage had a feature about her
www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/women-in-history/eleanor-coade/

Sophie Scholl, who was hanged by the Nazis in 1943 for distributing resistance leaflets. She was 22.

Lyse Doucet brilliant frontline journalist.

volver - exactly!

Blondiescot - Elsie Inglis on a Scottish note

Blondiescot's mention of Elsie Inglis reminded me of Flora Sandes, the only British woman to serve as a soldier in WW1. She became a captain in the Serbian Army and was seriously wounded in hand to hand combat, but survived and went on to marry and be interned by the Germans in WW2. She lived until she was 80 years old, dying in 1956.

Thanks so much for these. So many unacknowledged women.

Hedy Lamarr, best known as an actress, but also helped to develop a communications system which was used during the war and also paved the way for today's technologies such as wi-fi.
And on a Scottish note, Elsie Inglis - doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, and the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle.

Katherine Johnson. Although brilliantly clever, she had to fight because she was female and because she was black. She is remembered as the woman who got the US into space.

Ada Lovelace - instrumental in the development of the computer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

Aphra Behn, 1640-89. Playwright, novelist, poet and sometime spy. One of the first women to earn her living by her own writing. Acknowledged by Virginia Woolf as the person 'who earned (women) the right to speak their minds'.

Dame Mary Beard, classicist and feminist, not afraid to voice unpopular views.

Mine are three. Katherine Johnston, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.
The three black female mathematicians who helped America win the space race and put John Glenn into space.

Joanna Cherry QC., J K Rowling.

Thanks for the suggestions I wondered if Sojourner had said the words "No one is free until we are all free so Googled them. They are attributed to Martin Luther King. But a woman said them first. And a woman wrote the poem which is displayed on the Statue of Liberty

The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
So Emma Lazarus- writer, poet and activist for Jewis causes. Her words are remembered but she isn't.
"Until we are all free, we are none of us free"

Shirley Williams visited my school years ago, talked with 6th formers and they really liked her. They said she listened intently and used their names when she responded to what they said. I wish I thought there were more Westminster politicians like that.

Another vote here for Mo Mowlem.

Bumping this thread!
Please nominate your favourite woman of note

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Williamina Fleming. Born in Dundee in 1857, left school at 14. Abandoned by her husband in Boston, Massachusetts. Worked as a maid in the home of astronomy professor Edward Pickering, who saw her talents and employed her in his observatory.

She discovered hundreds of nebulae and stars, including the Horsehead Nebula, and she identified the first white dwarf stars.

Sojourner Truth. She led so many people to safety, during the time of American slavery, on the underground railroad.
She was an abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.. And while she is known, she doesn't have the notoriety of men such as Fredrick Douglas or Martin Luther King.

If we are opening things up a bit, I’ll go with More’s contemporary, the proto-feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft

Love these-had to Google Hannah More.
I had heard of Rosalin Franklin but didn't realise how important her research was.
TinaTurner-Simply the Best!

I am going a bit lighter and would like to nominate Tina Turner, who showed that it was possible to get away from a bad situation and renew a career in middle age. She went on to great success and has given a lot of pleasure to many people.

That’s a really good shout Beanutz
I remember reading about Franklin and being quite shocked how sidelined she had been.

Another vote for Mo Moslem