Feminism of the Femme Fatale Zazzie

Sanoy

Women all over the word have been battling for equivalent privileges for themselves and for others since the dark ages. Indeed, we're still regularly confronted with blunt discrimination based on our gender however genuine changes has been paved for our convenience. To celebrate International Women's Day, we have written a list of iconic and influential women throughout the years as a means of inspiring this generation to free themselves from the stereotypical limitations our society has chained usfrom.

The game of chess has truly captured the value of queens and women overall in a historical society led by men with close minded and traditional beliefs. It is always a hypocritical argument that women are the ones who love drama, when history has proved that monarchies are more successful and flourishing whenqueenregentsleadthemratherthantheirmale counterparts. Parchment after parchment of amendments and records of reign have shown the resilience of women born with little to no power but has fought the odds of a male dominated position. Strong examples of iconic queens are Cleopatra, the cunning seductress that caused one of history's greatest betrayal of the Roman Empire; Queen Teodora who worked for women’s marriage and dowry rights, anti-rape legislation, and was supportive of the many young girls who were sold into sexual slavery; Queen Elizabeth I who is considered England's greatest ruler with her politicallystabilizingforceofGreatBritain'scolonial expansion, and as a patronage of the arts that led to Shakespeare; and Queen Catherine, the formerly penniless Prussian princess who used her wits and cunning to usurp the throne, spearheaded judicial reforms, dabbled in vaccination, founded the country’s first state-funded school for women and draftedherownlegalcode.

Moving on from royalties and medieval times, it was always a controversial predicament to grant the female gender of the full education that men alwayshadtheprivilegeofachieving.Eveninthe Tudor era, it was an accepted ideal that women should be taught to cook, clean, knit, and just be overall submissive to their husbands' whims and desires. It was only in the 19th century that the blossoming of higher education for women really startedtoacceleratearoundtheworld,anditwas actually jaw-dropping for the men from those times to learn that their counterparts were rising up the ranks of geniuses despite millions of years of setback. Perhaps an underrated list of women that paved the path to the advancement of education and technology are: the actress Hedy Lamarr who was not credited enough for being the inventor of WiFi, and the radio system that was used in the World War II; feminist Margaret Sanger who wrote the pamphlets for women health clinics and coined birth control; Jane Goodall on her extensive research, which had spanned almost 60 years that provided some of the most groundbreaking insight into the minds and social lives of our closest relative - the chimpanzees; MarieCuriewhowasagiantinthe fields of physics and chemistry, and the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes; and Katherine Johnson, a pioneer of African American women at NASA on her complex calculation that helped achieve the first landing onthemoon.