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Nanda Devi lost her hand while saving the forest

Nanda Devi Kunwar, a renowned community conservationist was married at the age of 13 in the remote district Achham in Nepal. She was born...

Bessie Coleman: The first African American woman to Earn a Pilot License

Bessie Coleman was known for thrilling crowds with her dangerous manoeuvres in a rickety aeroplane and literally representing the heights...

8 Female Inventors Who Changed The Course Of History

You might have heard of Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell or Leonardo da Vinci, but what about Mary Anderson, Ann Tsukamoto or...

“When you wear the uniform you are an officer and not a man or a woman” - Dr Padmavathy Bandopadhyay

Air Marshal Padmavathy Bandopadhyay, born on 4 November 1944 is the first woman Air Marshal of the Indian Air Force. The first Indian...

Raye Montague: the first person to draft a Naval ship design by computer

A story of a woman who refused to let other people’s prejudices stand in the way of her success. Raye Montague was an ambitious little...

Meet Dr Swati Mohan, Indian American, leading NASA’s Perseverance Rover Landing on Mars

Dr Swati Mohan is NASA’s Operations Lead for the Mars 2020 Guidance, Navigation, and Controls (GN&C). The Indian-American scientist has...