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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. You can thank marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson for that. Rosalind Franklin. Embassy personnel. Nellie Bly.

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

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Global Diary is a monthly column written by journalist, Mariane Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2002 by terrorists in Pakistan. Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, and Africa's first elected female head of state.

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