International Women’s Day

Amazing women

1) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is a writer, who started by writing poems and short stories. Her three novels have been published in many different countries, and have won important awards. Many of her texts deal with the history of the Nigerian civil war. She is also famous for an essay called We Should All Be Feminists.

2) Marie Curie grew up in Poland in the late 1800s. At that time, women weren’t allowed to go to university in Poland. She went to France instead and studied physics in Paris. There, she met her future husband, who was also a physicist. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the first person to win it twice: in 1903, she and her husband shared the Nobel Prize for Physics, and seven years later, she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

3) Sojourner Truth was born as a slave in 1797 in the United States. When she was a young woman, she found people who helped her and paid for her freedom. Truth became a famous speaker. She travelled around the country and held speeches against slavery and for the rights of women. She told other feminists that they needed to fight for the rights of Black women, too.

4) Sky Brown is a skateboarder and surfer from Japan. When she was 10, she became a professional skateboarder. In 2020, she had an accident and was badly hurt. Luckily, she recovered. One year later, Sky won a bronze medal in women’s skateboarding at the Tokyo Olympics. She was only 13 years old at the time.

5) In 2016, Carla Perez from Ecuador climbed both Mount Everest and K2 without bottled oxygen. She is the first woman to successfully climb both mountains in the same year. She climbed her first mountain at the age of four, together with her father. At 16, she decided she would one day climb Mount Everest. In 2013, after many years of training, she tried but failed. For the next three years, she climbed many other mountains to get stronger, and, in the end, her hard work paid off.