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15 rare photos of women who changed history

8/ Komako Kimura, a Japanese suffragette who took to the streets of New York to demand the right to vote

9/ Marie Curie, a physicist and chemist famous for her work on radioactivity, who twice won the Nobel prize

10/ Margaret Heafield, the genius software engineering director of NASA’s Apollo space programme

11/ Maud Stevens Wagner, the first American woman to become a tattoo artist, in 1907

12/ Anne Franck, a precocious heroine

13/ Marina Ginestà, a French veteran of the Spanish civil war

14/ Gertrude Caroline Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel (1926)

15/ Anna Lee Fisher, the first mother to be sent into space (1984)

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