As woman’s day is approaching, we want to commemorate and acknowledge all the great women both in our lives, and around the world. Here are 5 of some of the world’s most impactful, remembered women:

 

 

1. Mother Teresa 

 

 

Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic Saint, is internationally known for her lifelong devotion and service caring for the sick and the poor. Mother Teresa contributed to society in many ways by establishing an open-air school, a hospice, a leper colony, an orphanage, a nursing home, a family clinic, and a string of mobile health clinics. In addition, Mother Teresa’s work was internationally recognized from her opening an American house of Charity in New York City, to aiding children of both Christian and Muslim faiths in Lebanon, and opening the home ‘Gift of Love’- a home to care for those infected with HIV and AIDS. Her effect on humanity is deep, and has left an imprint on the world. 

 

2. Melina Mercouri

 

 

Melina Mercouri is known for her talented roles in many award winning films, but also, for her role as activist in fighting against the Greek Military Junta  by starting an international campaign and traveling abroad to inform the world about the Greek fallen colonies. Her campaign resulted in her losing her Greek citizenship. After the fall of the dictating Greek regime, Mercouri returned to her home in Greece, and became one of the founding members of the PanHellenic Socialist Movement, as well as being appointed Minister for Culture of Greece, all while having a big involvement in the woman’s movement in Greece. 

 

3. Marie Curie

 

 

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and was the first persona and only woman to win it twice, as well as the only person to win a Nobel Prize in not one, but two different sciences. Curie was a polish physicist and chemist known worldwide for her innovative research in radioactivity.  Along with all her other ‘firsts’, Curie was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris. Her work has forever changed and influenced the world.

 

4. Amelia Earhart 

 

 

Amelia Earhart was the first woman pilot, and first female to fly on her own across the Atlantic Ocean. Earhart was the pioneer for female aviation, and inspired the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization specifically for female pilots. Earhart is the author of many best-selling books, and her aviation accomplishments was a huge contribution to her active role in the National Woman’s Party, as well as her contribution to the Equal rights amendment. 

 

5. Laskarina Bouboulina 

 

 

Laskarina Bouboulina is a Greek heroine who fought in the Greek War of Independence of 1821. Bouboulina was not only a leading member, but the only woman member of the underground organization ‘Filiki Etairia’, which prepared the Greek people for the revolution against the Turkish enslavement. Greece’s independence was largly accredited to Bouboulinas contribution- for without Bouboulina and her ships, Greece may have never gained their independence. Having spent her personal fortune on helping carry out a revolution for the Greek people, Bouboulina is recognized as a hero for men, woman, and Greece.