Amazing Women: 101 Lives to Inspire You

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My mother, Lila Devi, inspires me. Whenever I face any challenges of life, her values remind me to keep calm, grounded and mentally strong.

My mission is to develop the national conversation on social mobility, encouraging every business to create opportunities for young people." It means a lot to me personally and professionally. It shows that the work we do in our MHA Live at Home Scheme is valued by those who use our services.Dorothea Lange (L) in 1936 and her photo (R), titled Migrant Mother. / Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain (L), Dorothea Lange, Getty Images (R) Queen Elizabeth II was officially coronated on June 2, 1953. / Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images

Her innovative leadership has created a culture of equality, and she continues to change lives, fundraising for pioneering treatments. Reaching one million customers and knowing that a category we created from scratch has a big community who, like us, believe being good with money is a vital life skill. I’d like to expand to make every kid good with money. American aviation pioneer Earhart was the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, earning her the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for the record. She set many other records during her career, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organisation for female pilots. A member of the National Woman’s Party, she was an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment and in 1935 she joined the aviation department of Purdue University as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation. During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe, Earhart mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean. Irena Sendler (1910 – 2008) The charity enables sighted volunteers to guide those with sight loss through new environments, and to increase opportunities for social interaction. I can’t recommend the work they do highly enough, and I have also seen just how loved these animals are.’Carry on regardless of age. If you have something you want to achieve, carry on taking steps towards your goal. My other mission is Girls4Tech, which aims to keep girls studying science and technology. Tomorrow’s world will have many jobs in tech industries, so we need girls to keep up their STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) subjects." If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?'

For the first few weeks, my inner voice did its best to sabotage things, but after a couple of months, I could see my body was dramatically changing shape. It turns out we all have a set of abs and lovely muscles, it’s just that usually we walk around with a thin duvet of fat covering them up. I’ve learnt that you can change that at any time. While gender parity continues to be an ongoing problem (yes, even in 2023), the world is fortunately full of examples of brave women who have stood up to the most daunting challenges to make their voices heard and accept full recognition for their achievements. From singers to scientists and athletes to activists, here are 130 women who have changed the world. 1. Fatima al-Fihri

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History is not always what is seems—regardless of what even the most robust textbooks might say. Take, for example, the work of Rosalind Franklin: The British scientist whose 1952 research was integral to the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA, but who had her research swiped by male colleagues who announced their"discovery" to the world—and won a Nobel Prize for it—without giving Franklin any of the credit. Today, we think it’s a given that your family and community shape the person you become. That once-revolutionary concept was defined and popularized by the world-famous anthropologist Margaret Mead. Before graduating from Columbia University, Mead traveled to Samoa in 1925 to investigate a question of human nature: Was adolescence a struggle due to biology, or because of cultural influences? She spent nine months observing Indigenous society and concluded in Coming of Age in Samoa, her bestselling 1928 book, that culture largely determined one’s adolescent experience. The book was a sensation thanks to its frank descriptions of sexuality, and launched Mead into a long career. Just as important as her scientific work, Mead was an outspoken advocate for women’s equality, racial equality, sexual freedom, and the environment. —KL 86. Maryam Mirzakhani Kate says, "In Nosy Crow, we have been able to build an organization from scratch, and being an independent company means that we’re not in thrall to corporate finances. I love being able to do what we think is the right thing.