Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class.

The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine. The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily.

Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.

Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy. Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975. Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor (1941).

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