Let's go back in time!
There have been times when women were considered lesser than men and had to make a lot of efforts to do things which are so normal for us today. But there was a first for everything. Today we bring you a lot of such pictures. Not just firsts for that matter but many powerful ones who deserve to be seen. Go on and relive the moments with these amazing pictures!
106 years old Armenian woman protects her home with an AK-47, 1900.
Some of the first women to ever join US Marine Corps in August, 1918.
American nurses land in Normandy to take care of the casualties, 1944.
Female pilots during World War II.
First woman to run Boston Marathon in 1967.
Angelina Jolie talking to the Syrian refugees on Jordanian border, 2013.
French women shielding their children from gunfire in August, 1944.
The first women's basketball team from Smith College, 1902.
Biker women from Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, 1973.
The first Indian woman to become a pilot at the age of 21 in 1936.
A woman drinking tea during the London blitz in the aftermath of a German bombing, 1940.
Women at Pearl Harbor learning how to fight fires during WWII (1941-1945).
A Muslim woman protects a Jewish woman by covering her yellow star, 1941.
Afghani women studying medicine in 1962.
Dutch wife doesn't leave her German soldier husband even after he is captured & follows him to captivity, 1944
Women wearing shorts the first time in public.
Women boxing on a roof in Los Angeles, 1933.
Railroad workers - many were mums and wives of the men who left for war, 1943.
Women participating in the Derby, New York league of skaters, 1950.
A 17-year-old communist militant during the Spanish Civil War, 1936.
Women's Liberation Coalition protesting for equal pay, 1970.
The first woman to swim across the English channel, 1926.
The first woman in space, 1963.
First woman to win a Nobel prize.
A civil rights activist refuses to give up her seat on a bus, 1955.
A red cross worker takes down the last words of a British soldier in WWI.
A concentration camp survivor hits a neonazi with her purse, 1985.
A female photographer climbing the Chrysler building to capture photographs, 1934.
A mother marches with her gay son in a Pride parade at New York, 1972.
America's first female traffic cop, 1918.
A Japanese female samurai from 1800s.
The first female Turkish combat pilot in 1937.
Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd shock army, 1945.
Annette Kellermann - a swimmer, writer, film actress in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency in 1907.
First female tattoo artist in US, 1907.
"Winnie the welder", working in a shipyard, 1943.
The first mother in space, 1984.
An 18 year old French resistance fighter, 1944.
A police officer takes care of an abandoned baby in a desk drawer at Los Angeles, 1971.
One of the first female professional skateboarders, 1976.
First lady pilot to fly across Atlantic ocean.
Lead software engineer of the Apollo Project with her hand written code which took humanity to the moon, 1969.
A lady suffrage activist protesting after the "night of terror", 1917.
Girls delivering blocks of ice, 1918.
A mother playing with her daughter at the beach, 1950s.
A Lockheed employee working on a P-38 lightning in California,
A pro-vote activist at the little rock city jail, 1961.
A mother shows the picture of her son to returning prisoners of war in Vienna, 1947.
A concerned pea-picker and mother of seven during the Dust Bowl, 1936.
A 15 year old Hungarian fighter who fought against the Soviet Union, 1956.
That's all folks.
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