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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Along with earning her PhD (she is credited as the first woman in East and Central Africa to do so), Maathai taught at the university level, worked in the Kenya government, and founded the Greenbelt Movement. Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Shero Explorers. Mae Jemison. Future Sheroes. Jazz Jennings.

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Women Activists Profiled by Mariane Pearl in Glamour

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Hong Kong: Anson Chan, the highest-ranking woman to serve in Hong Kong's Government, who is campaigning for universal suffrage in Hong Kong. Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, and Africa's first elected female head of state.

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