Women and Gender equality
Inspirational women to discover
- Emmeline Pankhurst, Suffragette leader
- Sylvia Pankhurst, Suffragette and social reformer
- Emily Davison, Suffragette
- Amelia Earhart and Amy Johnson, flying pioneers
- Katherine Johnson, NASA Scientist
- Rosa Parks, Race Activist
- Greta Thunberg, Environmental Activist
- Marie Curie, Pioneering Scientist
- Malala Yousafzai, Womens Rights
- Valentina Tereshova, first woman in space
- Florence Nightingale, Social reformer
- Mary Anning, Fossil hunter
- Anne Frank, Jewish Holocaust diarist
- Grace Darling, Victorian heroine
- Mary Seacole, British-Jamaican nurse/businesswoman
- Frida Kahlo, Artist
- Helen Keller, Disability Rights Pioneer
- Mother Teresa, Humanitarian
- Michelle Obama, 1st Black American First Lady
- Ada Lovelace, Mathematician
Books about women, by women
- Kate Pankhurst is a childrens author, and a relative of Emmeline Pankhurst, famous Suffragette leader. She has written a series of 'Fantastically Great Women' books with illustrations about inspirational women.
- Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a book for girls about one hundred incredible women, famous or not who have done incredible things. Empowering, moving and inspirational true fairy tales for heroines who don't need rescuing!
- Doesn't matter how old you are, or your reading ability there is a book about the suffragettes for you. Why not try Reading Planet's 'Suffragettes - Their fight for the vote!' from Rising Stars for children 7-11 years.
- 'Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernadine Evaristo was the 2019 Booker prize winner with this title about modern Britain and black womanhood. You can also read more from Bernadine Evaristo.
