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Female militia of the anarchist CNT-FAI, Catalonia, Spanish Civil War, 1936

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Anti-bra protest, San Francisco, USA, 1969

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Photographer and suffragist Marie Høeg posing with her dog, Tuss. Norway, ~1900

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Photographers, suffragists, and LGBT couple Marie Høeg and Bolette Berg, Norway, ~1900

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Two archeologists having a lunch break in Nälsta, Sweden, 1930

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Judo demonstration by Port of London Authority officers, UK, 1950s

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Biology class in Kabul University, Afghanistan, 1950s or 1960s

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Finished Bren gun by Veronica Foster, one of many women working in war industry during WW2, Canada, 1941

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Woman operating a welding machine (considered a "man's job"), Philadelphia, USA, WW1, 1918

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Mary Edwards Walker, abolitionist, feminist, and military surgeon, wearing the Medal of Honor she earned during the US Civil War, USA, some time between 1873-1916

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Madame Decourcelle, first female motorized taxi driver in Paris, France, 1908

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Female mason in Berlin, Germany, ~1900

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Two women on a motorcycle, France, ~1921

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Women studying medicine in Afghanistan, 1962

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Pilots of the "Night Witches", female Soviet pilots who fought against the Nazi invaders, WW2, 1942

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Soviet Fighter Ace Lydia Litvyak preparing to board her plane, Soviet Union, WW2, ~1942?

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Kanno Sugako, Japanese anarcha-feminist, executed in 1911 for attempting to assassinate the Emperor

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Women's basketball team, Smith College, USA, 1902

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Women delivering ice, traditionally a man's job, USA, WW1, 1918

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Some of the first women inducted into the US Marine Corps, WW1, 1918

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Sarla Thukral, one of the first Indian women to receive her pilot's license, India, 1930s

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Elspeth Beard shortly after her circumnavigation around the world via motorcycle, UK, 1984?

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Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the extensive amount of code she and her team wrote to guide the NASA mission to the Moon, USA, 1969

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Suffragist Mary Winsor protesting the treatment of imprisoned suffragists, USA, 1917

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Crew of the B-17 'Pistol Packin' Mama' during training, Ohio, USA, WW2, 1944

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Japanese Suffragist Komako Kimura during a visit to the USA, 1917

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Maud Wagner, first known female tattoo artist in the US, ~1907

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American nurses on the beaches of Normandy, France, WW2, 1944

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Female Soviet snipers, WW2, ~1943

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Sniper Lyuba Makarova, Soviet Union, WW2, 1943

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Anandi Gopal Joshi of India (left), Kei Okami of Japan (center), and Sabat Islambooly of Syria (right), the first women in their countries to obtain a degree in Western medicine, 1886

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Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist and women's rights activist, USA, 1864

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Important skills for the modern gal, London, UK, 1901

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Katherine Switzer, first registered woman to complete the Boston Marathon, with her fellow runners interfering with an official's attempt to remove her bib number, USA, 1967

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Iranian women protesting mandatory veiling by the Islamic Republic, 1979

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Women's protest against mandatory veiling, Iran, 1979

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Vivian Bales, crossing the United States solo on motorcycle, 1929

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Burner Anna Bland, working on the SS George Washington Carver, USA, WW2, 1943

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