Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco for 2022. In the last century, countless notable women have been leaders of innovation and creativity in the Bay Area. They have inspired the minds and talents of today’s generation through a wide variety of industries. Women like Dorothy Arzner, who is widely known for rising to prominence within the film industry during a time when men dominated the field…
Toni Morrison was an award-winning American novelist known for her richly-detailed explorations of the frequently painful and unjust experiences of Black people. Her fantasy, magical realism, and poetic style give life to characters who find themselves in a society where they often feel bereft…
The iconic Ruth Bader Ginsburg was an American lawyer who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until she passed away in 2020. She was the second woman – and the first Jewish woman – to serve on the Court…
Margalit Ruth Gyllenhaal, better known as Maggie, is an American actress and filmmaker. Born into the movie industry, she is the daughter of notable filmmakers Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Achs and the older sister of actor Jake Gyllenhaal…
Janet Reno was an American lawyer who served as United States Attorney General in the Clinton administration from 1993 to 2009, the first woman named to the position. She served for the second-longest tenure in the role. She began her career at private law firms after earning degrees at Cornell University and Harvard Law School…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of San Antonio for 2022. Both past and present, women have been an integral part of shaping the city. Many historical women have started their roots in the city, such as Emma Tenayuca, who is known for her role of advocating for the suffering of low-class workers and leading a strike of nearly 12,000 individuals when she was just 22 years old…
Frances Perkins was the Secretary of Labor for the United States from 1933 to 1945, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, making history as the first woman to serve in a Presidential Cabinet. She advocated for industrial safety and workers’ rights in the emerging New Deal coalition…
Sallie Krawcheck is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Ellevest, a digital investment and financial advisor platform built by women for women. “This isn’t ‘for women,’ (so) ‘pink it and shrink it,’ ‘make it smaller.’ We’re going to forecast out your life so that you can achieve your goals…
