The future is female, and women are breaking the glass ceiling everyday. Let's take a look at the women making a difference all over the world!
"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then, you are an excellent leader." -Dolly Parton. All around the world, there women making a difference that benefit their communities and the world at large.
Kamala Harris has held many first titles. In 2010, she became the first African-American and first woman to serve as California’s attorney general. Six years later, Harris became the first Indian-American woman to be elected into the United States Senate. And in 2020, she became the first woman to win vice-presidency.
As the first female leader and unmarried leader of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen vows to make her country indispensable to the world by stimulating the economy with initiatives in biotech, defense, and green energy. She has broken protocol by making overtures with the U.S. causing tensions with mainland China. Ing-wen has been praised for leadership through COVID-19 for her rigorous track and trace program to prevent the contagion from spreading.
A household name that many of us are familiar with is Oprah Winfrey. She has been educating, inspiring, motivating, and helping others for over 25 years. She has many business ventures, including OWN television network, Weight Watchers, AppleTV, and more.
A world leader changing the norms is New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern. As one of the youngest world leaders and New Zealand’s youngest Prime Minister in 150 years, Ardern is making huge steps for her country. When she gave birth, she announced that her husband would be a stay-at-home dad, while she continued to run the government. Ardern has been praised for the way she has handled COVID-19. She has been successful in stopping the spread of not only one wave, but two. Ardern’s main goal is to develop an empathetic government with high focuses on child poverty and climate change.
In the United States, everyone over 18 has the right to vote. But research shows that poorer areas of the nation have a harder time getting their vote in. Stacey Abrams did not want this to be an issue, so she created Fair Fight, a voting rights organization. In the 2020 election, she and her organization were able to fundraise over $34 million in the last month of the election, as well as help over 800,000 Georgian citizens, register to vote.
As the youngest prime minister in the world, Sanna Marin, 36 years old, was sworn into Finland’s office in December 2019. She leads the coalition government, in which all five party members are women. She also scored high points for how she handled the spread of COVID-19 when it entered Finland. She continues to work on slowing the spread of the virus by tapping into influencers to teach and show awareness.
As Scotland’s First Minister and head of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon is the first woman to hold both of those roles. Since 2014, Sturgeon has been keeping her country at top priority, especially during the Brexit negotiations. She has independence goals for Scotland in the plan by exiting the U.K. while staying in the E.U. Plus, she helped Scotland become the first country to offer free menstruation products to everyone that needs them.
A co-founder/CEO of DNA company, 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki continues to expand this DNA testing company into something even larger. Some accomplishments Wojcicki helped these major business achievements include being the only direct-to-consumer genetics company cleared by the FDA for health tests and researching different drugs for pharmaceutical companies.
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