Yennenga
A legendary figure in West Africa, Yennenga has come to symbolise the epitome of the female warrior, a free and independent woman.
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Zhang
Empress Zhang was the second wife of Emperor Suzong during China’s Tang Dynasty. Through intrigue and plotting, she gained significant power during his reign, thanks in part to her alliance with a eunuch named Li Fuguo. Emperor Suzong elevated her to the status of empress in spring 758. Eventually she and Li Fuguo turned against each other late in the emperor’s reign, as he grew gravely ill. Zhang tried to have Li Fuguo put to death, but instead was captured and killed by her former ally and was posthumously demoted to commoner rank by Emperor Daizong, the stepson whom she had tried to depose as heir and also tried to have killed before he could take the throne.
Agrippina the Younger
Julia Agrippina was a powerful Roman empress and one of the most prominent and effective women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
Thung Sin Nio
Betsy Thung Sin Nio was an Indonesian-Dutch women’s rights activist, medical doctor, economist and politician.
Michelle Bachelet
Chilean politician who served as the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Over her more than 50-year career, she published novels, volumes of poetry and short story collections.
Jiang Qing
Jiang Qing was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, actor, and major political figure during the country’s Cultural Revolution (1966 to 1976).
Lakshmi Puri
Lakshmi Puri is a former Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations and the former Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.
Irena Sawicka
Irena Scheur-Sawicka was a Polish archaeologist, ethnographer, and educational and communist activist who joined joined the Polish Workers’ Party during World War II.
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage activist, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters.