Celebrated on August 26th in the US, it commemorates the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, granting women the right to vote. It was certified in 1920, despite being introduced many years earlier in 1878, and since 1972, every president has published a proclamation for Women's Equality Day.

This is a list of strong women who did their part, both big and small, to make the world a better place.

#1 Marie Curie was a Polish physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize

#2 Margaret Heafield was a director of software engineering for Nasa's Apollo Space Program (1969)

#3 Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education, the youngest-ever Nobel Prize Laureate

#4 A woman hitting a Neo-Nazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden (13 April, 1985)

#5 One of the Onna-Bugeisha, female Samurai Warrior of the Upper Bushi (Samurai), Class in feudal Japan (Late 1800's)

#6 Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon (1967). When organizer Jock Semple realised a woman was running he tried to tackle her

#7 Russia-born Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space aboard the Vostok 6 (1963)

#8 Amelia Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean (1928)

#9 These women were female firefighters at Pearl Harbor (1941)

#10 Komako Kimura, a prominent japanese suffragist marched on Fifth Avenue in New York City demanding the right to vote (27 October, 1917)

#11 Eliza Leonida Zamfirescu, the first woman engineer in the world

#12 Rosa Louise Mccauley Parks - civil rights activist whom theUnited States Congress called "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement".

#13 A 106-year-old woman who protected her home with a rifle, in Armenia (1990)

#14 Anne Frank was a Jewish diarist and writer

#15 Maud Stevens Wagner was the first known female tattoo artist in the United States (1907)