Awesome women creating change
80 videos • 370,723 views • by BBC World Service
This playlist celebrates women who are breaking taboos, fighting sexism and making the world a better place
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The 82-year-old grandmother with a taekwondo black belt - BBC World Service
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Women in Hollywood: Who runs the film industry? - The Conversation podcast, BBC World Service
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Women in Hollywood: Styling the stars - The Conversation podcast, BBC World Service
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Femicide Detectives: 'They keep killing women and it just isn't fair' - BBC World Service Docs
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The women trying to stop a nuclear war - BBC World Service
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'I nearly died rowing the Atlantic' - BBC World Service
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Shirley Chisholm: The first black woman to run for US president - BBC World Service
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Iranian journalist who fears arrest - BBC World Service
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What does it feel like to fall through the sky? - BBC World Service
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The resilience of weeds - BBC World Service
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What does it take to be a climate activist? The Climate Question - BBC World Service
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'I fled the Taliban and now my aim is the Olympics' - BBC World Service
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'It can be nerve-racking being a black hiker' - BBC World Service
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How Melinda Gates fights for female empowerment - BBC World Service
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The teacher that convinced The Bahamas to ban single-use plastic - BBC World Service
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How solar energy is empowering women in Yemen - BBC World Service
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The skateboarding Woolf Pack who live off adrenaline - BBC World Service
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Climate change: The woman watching ice melt from under her feet - BBC World Service, BBC 100 Women
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Jane Fonda: Actress and rebel - BBC World Service, BBC 100 Women
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The Iranian women facing jail for singing - BBC World Service
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Fighting depression, door to door - BBC World Service, People Fixing the World podcast
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Meet the first woman training to be an imam in France - BBC World Service
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Mahira Khan: ‘The movie hero cannot be someone who is abusive’ - BBC World Service
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'I started a publishing revolution' - BBC World Service
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'Daniel Ortega was my stepfather and abused me' - BBC World Service
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Coronavirus: Domestic violence rises as women are trapped with their abusers - BBC World Service
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Zahara: 'Don't keep quiet. It'll kill you inside' - BBC World Service, BBC 100 Women
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Three women who defied the Nazis - BBC World Service
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'I was Britain's first black headteacher' - BBC World Service
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'My scars are beautiful' - BBC World Service
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The women fighting for Lapland - BBC World Service
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Why do so many reality TV stars face online abuse? - BBC World Service
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Why diversity in children's stories matter - BBC 100 Women - BBC World Service
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Money masterclass - BBC World Service, BBC 100 Women
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How to curate a better playlist - BBC World Service, BBC 100 Women
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How to feel more confident speaking up - BBC 100 Women - BBC World Service
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The photographer who spent 50 years fighting to protect indigenous people - BBC World Service
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The former child refugee helping people leave Afghanistan - 100 Women, BBC World Service
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The unbroken camera of Roya Sadat - 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Mothers reborn: The surprising benefits of lifelike dolls - 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Breaking out of the cage: A documentary on Pakistan’s Hazara women fighting back – BBC World Service
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Mumbai's teenage rapper - BBC World Service
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'You wanted me dead, but look at me now' - Lives Less Ordinary, BBC World Service
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India’s first all-women newsroom - Outlook, BBC World Service
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Ms: The first magazine owned, run and written by women - BBC World Service
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The love story behind the Pap smear test - BBC World Service
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Shrimps, saris and guns - BBC World Service
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Ming-Na Wen on navigating Hollywood as an Asian American - 100 Women, BBC World Service
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A tennis legend you probably don’t know - BBC World Service
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The woman who taught the West to cook Indian food - Witness History, BBC World Service
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The women who demanded wages for housework - Witness History, BBC World Service
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Climate warrior, My Indian Life S3 Ep8 - BBC World Service
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Sirimavo Bandaranaike: The world’s first woman prime minister - BBC World Service, Witness History
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Octavia E Butler: Visionary black sci-fi writer - BBC World Service, Witness History
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The first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize - BBC World Service, Witness History
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The real-life 'Queen's Gambit' - BBC World Service, Witness History
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Britain's Land Girls - BBC World Service, Witness History
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The Irish Contraceptive Train - BBC World Service, Witness History
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Althea McNish: Designing fabrics for the Queen - BBC World Service
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Women rewiring Hollywood's comedy circuit - The Conversation podcast, BBC World Service
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The woman who invented the disposable nappy - Witness History, BBC World Service
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The mountaineer who broke barriers and records - My Indian Life - BBC World Service
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The women at the forefront of the climate battle - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Obama, Clooney and French Gates tackle child marriage - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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K-drama: Min-ha Kim meets Uhm Jung-hwa - BBC World Service
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Gloria Steinem: Bodily autonomy should be women’s rights priority - BBC World Service, BBC 100 women
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The show-stopping world of disabled equestrian vaulting - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Why international audiences fell in love with K-drama - The Cultural Frontline, BBC World Service
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Fighting period poverty with hand-made sanitary pads - People Fixing the World, BBC World Service
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Uhm Jung-hwa on ageism in K-drama - BBC World Service #shorts
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Child marriage: 'At 12, I was sold into marriage for $9' - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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On the road with Mexico’s female truck drivers - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service Documentaries
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Saving Uganda's mountain gorillas - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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The unique life of Pakistan’s Wakhi shepherdesses - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Huda Kattan: 'Beauty industry is sexist' - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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America Ferrera: 'We are still just fighting to be visible’ - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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Masaba Gupta on how her mixed heritage has influenced her work - BBC World Service
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The Iranian female DJs breaking taboos - BBC 100 Women, BBC World Service
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The Last Torch: The sisters defying the Taliban by singing - 100 Women, BBC World Service
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