Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of New Jersey for 2022. The Garden State is known for its diverse economy including major pharmaceuticals and life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, information technology and more…
Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a Northern Irish astrophysicist who, as a postgraduate student in 1967, discovered pulsars. Pulsars emit powerful beams of electromagnetic radiation out of their magnetic poles and can be observed only when one of those beams is pointing toward Earth…
Patsy Mink was the first Asian American woman, and the second woman from Hawaii, to be elected to the U.S. Congress. As a third-generation Japanese American, she faced down racism, sexism, and discrimination to achieve a successful political career…
Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaroff is a renowned molecular and cellular biologist best known for her work in her 1978 post-doctoral research. She was a key member of the team that discovered how bacterial cells could be used to generate insulin, and she has been an academic laboratory scientist, a university administrator, and a businesswoman…
Debra Cafaro has been at the helm of the $26+ billion S&P 500 firm Ventas, one of the so-called “Big Three” healthcare real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the United States, since 1999. When she joined, she needed to turn around a $200 million REIT that had only one tenant, was $1 billion in debt, and couldn’t make rent…
World Golf Hall of Famer Annika Sörenstam is one of the most successful golfers in Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) history. She has an astounding list of wins, including three U.S. Women’s Open titles, 94 worldwide victories (72 on the LPGA Tour), and a record eight Player of the Year awards…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce Top 50 Women Leaders of New York for 2022. We acknowledge these individuals for not only their professional achievements, but also their philanthropic and community efforts…
Nobel prize-winning author Alice Munro has been cited by the Swedish Academy as “a master of the contemporary short story.” She was the first to win the Nobel Prize in Literature as a pure short story writer and has published 14 original short-story collections and several short-story compilations…
Octavia E. Butler was one of the first African American and female science fiction writers to break into the male-dominated genre. As a feminist and a pioneer, she wrote works that explored race, political disparity, poverty, morality, global warming, women’s rights, and gender. She was first published in the mid-1970s and kept on at a prolific pace until her death at the age of 58…
American beach volleyball star Misty May-Treanor is a three-time Olympic gold medalist who enjoyed a record-breaking career. She and her teammate Kerri Walsh-Jennings have been called “the greatest beach volleyball team of all time”…
