“Her work is most important in the academic world, as very little has been done on Muslim children’s literature, either in the U.K. or internationally. It is important that the study of children’s literature is inclusive. Fawzia brings understanding where there would otherwise be silence.”

While female politicians in the U.S. and the U.K. face a huge amount of trolling — Amnesty International research in 2017 found that a woman in politics was sent an abusive tweet every 30 seconds — only about 7 percent of tweets sent to them were labeled abusive, while for Indian female politicians it was about double that. Women representing parties across the political spectrum were targeted with slurs insulting their race and gender and threatened with rape and murder.

Chances are, you’ve heard of nuclear fission — the term by Austrian physicist Lise Meitner coined in her theoretical explanation of the phenomenon she and Hahn discovered together. But the pioneering researcher — once described by Albert Einstein to their mutual colleagues as “our Marie Curie,” a nod to the first female recipient of the Nobel Prize — was effectively robbed of the world renowned award. If it weren’t for her, we might never have had nuclear fission — or, for that matter, the atomic bomb.

Born around 1673, d’Aubigny was taught fencing by her father. After an unhappy marraige, she found a fencing expert and ran away with him. The couple traveled the countryside, showing off their fencing skills to the public. When an audience member questioned her gender — she was just too good at sword-fighting to be a woman, you see — d’Aubigny ripped off her shirt in front of him.

Baruah is the state of Assam’s first transgender judge, and the third in all of India. In recent months, she’s been consumed with fighting the Supreme Court of India on behalf of at least 2,000 trans people who were left out in the controversial National Register of Citizens (NRC) list.

During his 15-year rule, Atatürk transformed Turkish society, particularly for women. He granted women the right to vote, in 1934, and recognized the rights of women to divorce. But Atatürk’s vision for Turkey was borne on the backs of Kurds and the extermination of Armenians in 1915. And while Sabiha Gökçen became a symbol of Turkey’s empowered women, her life has dark episodes often omitted in historical accounts.

“In situations where she knows she’s right, and that her actions and decisions can help someone, she’ll ignore the phrase, ‘That’s impossible,’” says Tetyana Teren, vice president of PEN Ukraine.

Pearcey stands at the vanguard of the rising tide of women of color in Democratic politics, as seven of the top 10 presidential candidates have a woman of color as their national political director.

Though the cost of living has risen in recent years, off-the-beaten-track locations like Williston generally have lower business startup costs. That’s important to women, since, according to research from Columbia Business School, “female-led ventures are disproportionally overlooked by venture capitalists at multiple stages of the entrepreneurship pipeline.”

The No. 1 reason people in the United States call the police is domestic violence. Depending on the region, such abuses make up 15 to 50 percent of 911 calls on top of the estimated 20,000 calls per day to domestic violence hotlines. It should be more: just one-quarter of physical assaults, one-fifth of rapes and half of the stalkings perpetrated against women by their partners are even reported.