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The strike at Ford's car factory Dagenham led to equal pay legislation in the UK
The daughter of the Soviet dictator, Svetlana defected to the West in 1967
How Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967
The larger than life vaudeville star - Sophie Tucker - died on February 9th 1966.
The British popstar Dusty Springfield went on tour in apartheid South Africa in 1964
Betty Friedan's book kickstarted the modern women's movement.
In June 1963 Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit.
In 1962 Timmie Jean Lindsey became the first woman in the world to have the operation.
The disappearance of the remains in 1955 of Evita Peron, the revered Argentine first lady
Two Maids of Honour remember the crowning of Queen Elizabeth the Second in London in 1953.
The scientist produced an x-ray photograph in 1951 that helped show the structure of DNA
The life of the legendary French singer remembered by her friends and lovers
Cells taken from an African American woman in 1951 revolutionised medical science
In 1949 Iva Toguri was falsely accused of making Japanese propaganda during World War Two
In June 1947 the diary of Anne Frank was published for the very first time.
In 1946 tens of thousands of British women went to Canada on the first 'war brides' ship
A child's eye view of life in Berlin in the aftermath of World War II
A young Jewish woman escaped from the Kaunas Ghetto in Lithuania to fight the Nazis.
Yelena Malyutina was a Soviet female bomber pilot who fought in WW2.
How the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch survived the Holocaust by playing music.
In 1943, the first and only professional women's baseball league was launched in the US
On March 28th 1941 the British novelist Virginia Woolf took her own life.
Thousands of women and girls worked on farms throughout WW2 to produce much needed food.
One girl's story of exile and soldiering during World War II.
