Photo of Mabel Capper and Patricia Woodlock advertising a meeting, Manchester, Lancashire, July 1908

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Women in WW2 army uniform march in front of an airplane

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A late 19th-century image shows a group of ‘pit lasses’, employed to work at the surface of coal mines. An earlier law had explicitly banned women from working below ground. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

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An 1872 illustration from the weekly newspaper Days’ Doings shows a shoplifter being apprehended (Photo by Look and Learn/Rosenberg Collection/Bridgeman Images)

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From fire hazard petticoats to garments that caused fainting and even death by poison, some trends in 19th-century women’s fashion were risky business for those who wore them. (Photo by Toronto Star Archives/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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Emily Anderson. (Illustration by Cat O’Neil)

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Elżbieta Zawacka pictured on her Poznań University ID in 1927

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A c1800 depiction of Gulbadan Begum smoking while seated on a throne-like armchair.

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WSPU founder Emmeline Pankhurst (centre) at a 1915 march calling for women to be used in ammunition manufacture (Photo by Kemsley/NCJ Archive/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

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Lee Miller and Kate Winslet.

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Nicola Fox and Marie Curie

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A man helps his partner to dress by lacing her whalebone corset.

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Kichenware displayed in Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery 1930 Edition (Photo by De Luan/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Rosemary Kennedy (right), the eldest Kennedy daughter. Pictured here with her mother Rose (centre) and sister Kathleen

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Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst

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Portrait of Catherine de Medici, also known as the Serpent Queen

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Illustration shows force-feeding of suffragettes

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A bust of the Persian queen Atossa, wife of Darius I. It was at Atossa’s suggestion that Darius launched an invasion of Greece, sparking four decades of war. (Photo by AKG Images).

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Polish-born chemist Marie Curie

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