WOMENS DAY

women's day

March 8

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SIMONE

ROSALIND

AMELIA

VIRGINIA

INDIRA

MALALA

FRIDA

CHIMAMANDA

COCO

ANGELA

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Indira Ghandi

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BIOGRAPHY

She was an indian politician.She was born in 1917, in Allahabad. She studied at Visva-Bharati University (Bengal) and Oxford University (England).In 1938 she became involved in the movement for the independence of India. When India gained its independence in 1947 she became an adviser on national issues. In the elections of January 1980, she achieved spectacular success. In 1984 she was shot and killed in New Delhi by members of her security guard.

1917 - 1984

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As a female leader in the 20th century, Indira Gandhi was a member of a very small club. Yet she had one friend who could understand what her life was like: the Iron Lady herself, Britain's Margaret Thatcher.

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Frida

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Kahlo

She is a mexican artist who has become a cultural symbol. She was born in 1907 in Coyoacán, south of Mexico City. She preferred to portray herself as someone who represented her ultimate reality, which made her feel very far from the concerns for the unconscious, typical of surrealism. She died in 1954 in Coyoacán at the age of 47 due to a pulmonary thrombosis.

INTERESTING FACT Her last words were: "I look forward to the departure and I hope never to return."

1907 - 1954

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Virginia Wolf

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1882 - 1941

She was a British writer. Her original name was Adeline Virginia Stephen. She was born in London in 1882. She had a privileged education. She was able to read and study during her childhood. When the Second World War came, she entered a nervous state from which she could never get out: she lost her house, she felt sad, alone and so incapable of continuing to write.

INTERESTING FACTWhen she was a teenager, a ghost appeared that would accompany her for life called depression. For this reason, she tended to get very sad.

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SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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INTERESTING FACTSShe was one of the most outstanding women of the 20th century. She was a brilliant student. Her book The Second Sex (1949) became a classic of contemporary thought. Until her last days, she was a tireless fighter for human rights.

BIOGRAPHY

She was a writer, philosopher, and professor of human rights in general, and of women's rights in particular. She studied at the Sorbonne and in 1929 she met Jean-Paul Sartre, who became her partner for the rest of her life.

1908 - 1986

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AMELIA EARHART

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INTERESTING FACTS

In 1928 she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane as a passenger, and in 1932 she did it alone, setting a new milestone on the journey: 13 hours 30 minutes. In 1935 she was the first woman to cross a part of the Pacific Ocean, from Hawaii to California. At the end of that year, she established a speed record by flying continuously from Mexico City to New York in just over 14 hours.

BIOGRAPHY

She was an American aviator. She was born in Atchison, Kansas (United States). She attended Columbia University and Harvard Summer School. In June 1937 she began a flight around the world from Miami (Florida). Her plane mysteriously disappeared in July 1937 when she was flying from Lae, New Guinea to Howland Island.

1898 - 1937

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INTERESTING FACTS Franklin carried out studies on X-ray diffraction on the structure. Her work allowed to unveil the helical structure of the DNA molecule. She won a university scholarship for the physicochemical laboratory.

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ROSALIND FRANKLIN

She was a British biophysicist. She was born in 1920 in Notting Hill, London. She studied chemistry and physics at Newnham College, Cambridge University, where she graduated in 1941. She passed away in April 1958 from ovarian cancer in Chelsea, London.

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1920 - 1958

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MALALA YOUSAFZAI

BIOGRAPHY

She is a Pakistani activist defender of the right to education for girls and women. She was born in Mingora (Pakistan) in 1997. Malala loved going to school and learning with her father and her classmates. Radical extremists, among other things, banned girls from going to school. She began to speak about the right to education across the country, despite the danger she posed.

1997 - PRESENT DAY

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At just 15 years old, she was the target of a Taliban attack that almost ended her life.With the help of her father, she opened her foundation, "Malala Fund", which aims to provide opportunities for all girls. In recognition of her work, Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel Peace Prize, being the youngest person to achieve it.

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COCO CHANEL

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Chanel became a symbol of the modern, active and liberated woman. The image of Chanel herself was admired and imitated by millions of women. She is responsible for the disappearance of the corset. She introduced pants into the women's wardrobe, as well as long-waisted dresses: flapper style, sailor suits, pleated skirts, pearls and low-heeled shoes. Also, she imposed the color black in the wardrobe.

She was a French haute couture fashion designer and founder of the Chanel fashion brand that revolutionized fashion and the world of haute couture.

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1883 - 1971

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CHIMAMANDA

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1977 - PRESENT DAY

INTERESTING FACTS In 2003, she published her first novel, "The Purple Hibiscus", which was well received by critics and received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book in 2005. The action from her second novel was awarded the Orange Prize for Fiction.

BIOGRAPHY

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria, specifically in the village of Abba. She is a Nigerian writer. She spent her childhood in the city of Nsukka. Her father was a statistics professor and her mother also worked at the University as a secretary. At the age of nineteen, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie moved to the United States on a two-year scholarship to study Communication and Political Science at Drexel University, Philadelphia.

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She is considered an icon of the twentieth century: she is a woman who made Afro-style hair fashionable in the 70s and a whole aesthetic and a rebellious attitude towards life.She was hunted down by the FBI and wrongfully imprisoned. She is a survivor of a convulsed era of racial segregation in the United States.

Philosopher, Marxist politician, professor, ex-militant of Black Panthers and of the communist party, Afro-American activist detractor of oppression and patriarchy.She grew up under the painful and latent traces of slavery, observing the contempt for blacks in the neighborhoods, the educational system and cultural institutions.

ANGELA DAVIS

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1944 - PRESENT DAY

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LET'S PLAY!

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CHOOSE THE CORRECT OPTION

1/5

What is her name?

Coco

Malala

Frida

EASY, RIGHT?

2/5

She was an American aviator. In 1935 she was the first woman to cross a part of the Pacific Ocean, from Hawaii to California.

ROSALIND FRANKLIN

AMELIA EARHART

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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3/5

She was a British writer. She tended to get very sad.Her name was ...

VIRGINIA

SIMONE

ROSALIND

WELL DONE!

4/10

Look at these pictures.Can you guess who is this woman?

ANGELA

CHIMAMANDA

COCO CHANEL

THE LAST ONE!

5/5

Match the names with the pictures. Check the correct answer in the number

MALALA YOUSAFZAI

INDIRA GHANDI

CHIMAMANDA

ANGELA DAVIS

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