Women activists who pushed boundaries and helped equate gender

1. Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai, born on July 12, 1997, is an extremely strong woman who has accomplished a lot for her age, (now 20) and is most known for her advocacy for Pakistani education. While only at 17 years old, she fought rigid social norms while dealing with the Taliban. She won the Nobel Peace Prize, the youngest so far to win one, after the Taliban shot her in the head, on Oct. 9, 2012, which she survived, remarkably with no brain damage. A year later, in 2013, she went to the United Nations and gave a strong speech while also publishing, I Am Malala. In 2014, she got the Nobel Peace Prize at 17.

Taliban had been attacking girls at the school her father founded, which started her activism. In Peshawar, Pakistan, September 2008 she gave a talk titled, How dare the Taliban take away my basic right to education?

2009 and Yousafzai had blogged for the BBC, recording life under the Taliban, and their attacks on the education of women. When she went public, she then ascertained a public platform.

Her activism got her a nomination for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011. Also in 2011, she won Pakistan's National Youth Peace Prize. And as they say, the rest is history According to Biography.com