Seven influential women who made a difference in the world

Tuesday, March 8, is International Women's Day. It is the day where women around the world take center stage. These seven women deserve a place in the list of influential women in history who made a difference.Text: Patrick Stoffer
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Aletta Jacobs

Aletta Jacobs (1854 - 1929) was the first university student to successfully complete her studies. Although the first university student in the Netherlands began her studies two centuries earlier, Anna Maria van Schurman, Jacobs was the first female student to complete a university degree. She then enjoyed fame as the first female official physician in the Netherlands. But her life encompassed much more. Among other things, she fought for women's suffrage, the bill for women's suffrage being passed in 1919, which she had conceived. From 1922, women were actually allowed to vote. She also became the figurehead of the first feminist wave.Embed from Getty Images