JULY 12: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN

Geraldine Ferraro

Representative Geraldine Ferraro (D-New York) was chosen as the first female to run for Vice President of the United States on the Democratic Party ticket with Walter Mondale (D-Minnesota). She was born today in 1984.

Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai was born today in 1997. She is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school.

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Read more about Malala’s story.