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International Women's Day

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

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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)

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