Thousands of women have made ... What Angela Merkel is famous for: Politics Bottom line: Angela Merkel is a retired German politician and scientist. She made history as the first female chancellor ...

Charlotte "Betty" Webb worked at Bletchley Park, the famous British code-breaking center, where she was responsible for sorting intercepted German communications. She later paraphrased Japanese ...

But her rallying stance – hand outstretched towards Manchester's former Free Trade Hall where she organised the first suffragette meetings that would change the course of British history ...