At 44 years of age, Sirimavo Bandaranaike stepped out of her shy housewife persona to campaign for and eventually win her recently deceased husband’s seat as the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. For 40 years, she held political dominance as the world’s first female PM, until her death by heart attack on the way home from voting in Sri Lanka’s general election…
Despite being born a slave in the early 1800s, Harriet Tubman earned her freedom, led hundreds of others to freedom, and acted as a spy for the Union Army in her lifetime. Tubman impacted the lives of many by continuously risking her own to end the institution of slavery…
Across the U.S. and Europe, Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell broke down barriers in the field of medicine as the first woman to acquire a medical degree and be credited as a doctor of medicine. She successfully forged an independent medical career for herself against oppressive odds, and actively advocated for female representation in the industry…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 100 Women Leaders in Law of 2021. This year’s awardees were nominated and selected for their dedication and commitment to the field of law…
Anne Wojcicki joined the ranks of America’s most powerful women earlier this year as a newly minted “self-made billionaire” on Forbes’ venerable list. This status was earned after Wojcicki’s genetic testing startup 23andMe went public in a SPAC deal with Sir Richard Branson…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 100 Women Leaders in Law of 2021. This year’s awardees were nominated and selected for their dedication and commitment to the field of law…
Anna Sutherland Bissell was the first woman to hold the title of Chief Executive Officer in the United States, and impacted many aspects of modern business practices during her impressive career. Bissell’s youth was spent in Du Pere, Wisconsin, where she soaked up all of the formal education available to a young woman in the late 1800s…
Known as a trailblazer in the field of mathematics, Mirzakhani overcame great odds to become the only woman, and only Iranian, to receive the revered Fields Medal—considered the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for mathematics. Despite succumbing to breast cancer at the age of 40 in 2017, Mirzakhani shepherded in a new age of mathematics with her unprecedented work…
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.” By the age of 15, Malala Yousafzai had achieved more than most adults might dare to in a lifetime—on a global scale…
Imagine if your children could enter a club that was open for all, but also counted amongst its alumnae Serena and Venus Williams, Taylor Swift, Hillary Clinton, Condaleeza Rice, and every female astronaut that has flown into space…
