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’s History at St John’s College, Oxford University.

Nisi Shawl - friend of Octavia Butler.Rosario Piedra - daughter of Rosario Ibarra.Nick Caistor - journalist.Seema Dhundia - member of India’s Central Reserve Police Force.Lesley Pruitt - author of The Women in Blue Helmets.Monica McWilliams - one of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement.Chanira Bajrycharya - former child goddess in Nepal.

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