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International Women's Day

Published: March 11, 2023, 3 p.m.

Max Pearson presents a compilation of stories celebrating women who made history including a ground-breaking, African American science fiction writer and the first presidential hopeful in Mexico.

Plus the UN's first ever all-female peacekeeping unit, a woman who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland and a child goddess in Nepal.

Contributors:

Dr Brenda Stevenson - Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women\u2019s History at St John\u2019s College, Oxford University.\nNisi Shawl - friend of Octavia Butler.\nRosario Piedra - daughter of Rosario Ibarra.\nNick Caistor - journalist.\nSeema Dhundia - member of India\u2019s Central Reserve Police Force.\nLesley Pruitt - author of The Women in Blue Helmets.\nMonica McWilliams - one of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement.\nChanira Bajrycharya - former child goddess in Nepal.

(Photo: March for International Women's Day in Mexico City in 2023. Credit: Getty Images)