31 Women Who Deserve to Be Way More Famous
These are the people who should be running the world
![31 Women Who Deserve to Be Way More Famous](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/3/2/703532.jpg?v=2)
There’s only so much room in the history books for heroes, and some of those books have a habit of leaving out the contributions of women. Our readers are here to rectify that, with some accomplished, amazing women who should be way more well-known than they are right now. Please focus your admiration on the following amazing women…
![Zura Karuhimbi saved more than 100 people during the Rwandan genocide, using her, reputation as a witch to scare killers away. Whenever a militia near](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/1/703151.jpg?v=2)
![Khatoon Khider was an Iraqi Yazidi singer, which earned her local fame and success. But after ISIS appeared in her region, she formed an ll-female uni](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/6/703176.jpg?v=2)
![Huda Sha'arawi arawi was pioneer in feminist a activism. She was the first Egyptian woman to found a philanthropic society, opened a school for girls,](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/3/703173.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM Misty Copeland is an American ballerina. Despite growing up in a single-parent home and having financial struggles, she became the first A](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/4/703174.jpg?v=2)
![AFTER BEING REJECTED FROM JOINING FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE'S NURSE GROUP, MOST LIKELY BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF HER SKIN... Mary Seacole decided to go to th](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/6/7/703167.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM Eta Wrobel escaped from a concentration camp into the woods, in 1942. Once there, she helped organize an 80-person resistance group that d](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/6/1/703161.jpg?v=2)
![During the Renaissance, Caterina Sforza commanded troops and sezed Rome's Castel Sant' Angelo on behalf of ber busband, despite being seven months pre](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/9/703159.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED CO Flossie Wong-Staa became the first researcher to successfully clone and map HIV. Her work paved the way for the development of HIV blood te](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/6/0/703160.jpg?v=2)
![Lois Jenson filed (and won) America's first-ever class-action sexual harassment lawsuit: Jenson V. Eveleth Mines. Jenson's -year legal battle was fuel](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/8/703158.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM Beate Sirota Gordon secretly introduced equal rights and women's civil rights to POST-WWII Japan - and got away with it. As a part of the](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/7/703157.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDo COM Jeannette Rankin was elected as the first woman member of Congress in 1916, four years before American women were allowed to vote. I may](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/5/703155.jpg?v=2)
![In 1919, at the age of 16, YU Gwan-sun fought for Korean independence, protesting Japanese colonial rule. She was sent to prison, where she organized](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/4/703154.jpg?v=2)
![Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White --a pacesetter throughout her remarkable career -- was the first female in her line of work and the first to wor](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/2/703152.jpg?v=2)
![Edith Cavell was a British nurse working in German-) occupied Belgium during World War I. She healed, sheltered, and smuggled 75 injured British and F](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/6/703146.jpg?v=2)
![American Virginia Hall was a British spy during World War II. CRACKED COM She created a network of 90 secret agents called Heckler in southern Franc](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/9/703149.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDCO COM Althea Gibson was the world's #1 tennis player in 1957, and was the first to win the Wimbledon, French, and U.S. Opens. She was added to](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/4/3/703143.jpg?v=2)
![In 1876, Belva Ann Lockwood was forbidden from arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court because she was a woman. She then spent years lobbying) for a law](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/2/8/703128.jpg?v=2)
![In 1957, Mary Kenner patented a sanitary napkin worn on an adjustable belt, for menstrual periods. Most women were still using cloths and rags, so thi](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/2/7/703127.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM Dr. Mary Edwards Walker was the first woman awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for her work as a surgeon during the Civil War. She w](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/5/703105.jpg?v=2)
![Deborah CRACKED Sampson COM son Enlisted in the Continental Army in 1782 during The Revolutionary War disguised as a man. In an effort to not be expos](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/1/9/703119.jpg?v=2)
![Trans computer scientist Lynn Conway is largely to thank for the device you're reading this on. Modern silicon chip design is mainly based on her idea](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/1/6/703116.jpg?v=2)
![EVa Saxl, a diabetic, taught herself how to synthesize insulin from water buffaloes when legal insulin became unavailable in the Shanghai Ghetto where](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/1/7/703117.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKED COM US.A Track and field athete Wilma Rudolph had polio as an infant, required a leg brace until age nine, and was unable to walk properly unt](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/1/4/703114.jpg?v=2)
![Helen Gibson (1891-1977) was ONE BADASS WOMAN. Back when men would dress in drag to perform female stunts, Gibson became the first Hollywood stunt wom](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/1/3/703113.jpg?v=2)
![Luisa aCapeulabor one of the biggest strikes in Puerto Rican history After winning the right to wear pants in public, she became an organizer, leading](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/7/0/703170.jpg?v=2)
![Young Pole Gertrude Boyarski saw her whole family murdered by the Germans. She then joined the Jewish partisans and mercilessly hunted down soldiers.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/5/0/703150.jpg?v=2)
![Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summits of the tallest mountains ON EVERY CONTINENT.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/1/1/703111.jpg?v=2)
![Lucretia Mott was an outspoken abolitionist back in the 1800s. She actively participated in public speeches against slavery despite her exclusion from](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/0/6/703106.jpg?v=2)
![papapapapapa papapapapoapoapa GLADUS BENTIEY papapapaapa D0dadeoapapa S.MOPPE Gladys Bentley was a bawdy nightclub performer who unapologetically wore](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/2/1/703121.jpg?v=2)
![Ruth Lant CRACKED CO one of the very first woman pilots in the US. Mainly flying in an open air biplane, Law smashed long distance records, was a stun](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/1/8/703118.jpg?v=2)
![When her three brothers died in battle in WWIl, Roza Shanina quit her job as a kindergarten teacher and joined the Red Army. She became a sniper, made](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/1/2/6/703126.jpg?v=2)