Her history of dissenting opinions on the court built her up as an icon and, as Rolling Stone(opens in new tab) wrote, earned her the moniker “the Notorious RBG.’”

Born into slavery in 1797, Isabella Baumfree, who later changed her name to Sojourner Truth, would become one of the most powerful advocates for human rights in the nineteenth century.

An English mathematician and an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer.

Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.

She founded the order, The Missionaries of Charity, to look after abandoned babies and to help the poorest of the poor, once saying that they "lived like animals but die like angels". In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize and after her death was canonised as Saint Teresa.

She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland.

To celebrate, cherish, and commemorate their role in shaping society for the good, we compiled a list of the 12 most influential women in leadership today.

Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and economic security.

Women’s History Month is a celebration of women’s contributions to history, culture and society and has been observed annually in the month of March in the United States since 1987.