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Women in today’s society are considered equal to men in all aspects. But there was a time when the ladies were treated beneath the norms of male-dominated society.

Through the empowerment of some, they slowly rose up to power and compete with the opposite sex.

These women proved that they are capable of men’s job, and can even rival their skills and aptitude in every field.

Female pilots leaving their B-17 Bomber (1943)

A Lockheed employee working on a P-38 Lightning (1944)

American nurses land in Normandy (1944)

Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union (1956))

Parisian women protect and shield their children during sniper fire (1944)

Leola King, America’s first female traffic cop (1918)

12 Female snipers in the Soviet Army (1945)

A solider training the “mums army” in Britain (1940)

A Los Angeles police officer looks after an abandoned baby in her desk drawer (1971)

The photo of a worried mother of 7 during the American dust bowl (1936)

Amelia Earnhardt, the first women to fly an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (1928)

A female mason high above Berlin (1900)

Some of the first women sworn into the US Marine Corps (1917)

Sabiha Gökçen of Turkey poses with her plane. In 1937, she became the first female fighter pilot.

Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel (1926)

A female welder at a boat-and-sub-building yard adjusts her goggles before resuming work (1943)

Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation (1944)

Railroad workers, these are wives and mothers of the men who left for war (1943)

Anna Fisher, the first “Mother of Space” (1980s)

A captured Russian soldier is given water by a brave Ukrainian woman (1941)

Annette Kellerman posing in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency (1907)

Volunteer women learn how to fight fires in Pearl Harbor (1941)

An 18 year old freedom fighter during the liberation of Paris (1944)

A women drinking tea on the aftermath of German bombing in London Blitz (1940)

Two women show their uncovered legs for the first time in history in Toronto (1937)

Margaret Bourke-White, an incredible photographer that climbed the Chrysler building in New York for pictures. (1934)

Marina Ginesta, a 17 year old militant overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936)

Girls delivering very large and heavy blocks of ice after the men were enlisted into the Army (1918)

Girls boxing in Los Angeles (1933)

106-year old Armenian lady protecting her house (1990)

The first ladies basketball team from Smith College (1902)

Sarla, the first Indian girl to earn her pilots license (1936)

Maud, the first female tattooist in the United States (1907)