Andrée Peel, the French Resistance hero who rescued over 100 British and American pilots shot down over France, was born on this day in 1905. The Brest beautician known as "Agent Rose" became one of the most highly decorated women to survive WWII. She helped save countless lives until she was arrested by the Gestapo shortly after D-Day.

"This problem is a lot more pervasive than people could ever have imagined. Nationally the number is about 20% of rapes that are reported and when you get to the prosecution stage it's very, very little... that's very sobering, very sad and very pathetic."

Josephine Baker was daring entertainer, one who often shocked audiences by defying all the conventions of the day. But she was also a French Resistance spy, a civil rights activist, and an adoptive mother to a "Rainbow Tribe" of a dozen diverse children that she hoped could model racial unity.

In 1942, 77 American Army and Navy nurses were captured by the Japanese, marking the beginning of what would become one of the greatest, yet little known, stories of heroism and sacrifice during World War II. Incredibly, every single woman survived three long years of starvation, illness, and fear as prisoners of war, all while continuing to work as a nursing unit, providing medical care to the thousands of people imprisoned alongside them.

In Nazi-occupied Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family worked with the Dutch Resistance to shelter 800 Jews and other refugees in a secret room in their home. The deeply devout Calvinist watchmaker ultimately survived incarceration at Ravensbrück concentration camp and wrote a now famous memoir "The Hiding Place."

Research showing that girls are more likely to feel the need to be perfect and to struggle with confidence when they make even small mistakes, it's particularly important to raise resilient girls. As Rachel Simmons, author of Enough As She Is, explains: "What we want is for girls to have is the capacity to move through a setback without beating themselves up."