Amazing Women: 101 Lives to Inspire You

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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.’ From event planning to entrepreneurship and reality TV, Bethenny Frankel can do it all. In a world of sameness, Frankel is a breath of fresh air with her unapologetic take on life and unique perspective. Her new podcast Just B is a must-listen - and is unlike any business podcast I’ve ever heard. I’ve listened to every episode. She also uses her platform for good—Frankel’s philanthropic work through her charity BStrong has raised awareness and money for causes around the world. I’m fascinated by this woman who is rewriting the rules of success, and she’s just hilarious and a lot of fun to listen to.

Crisis works side by side with people experiencing all forms of homelessness, offering education, training and support with housing, employment and health. Michelle says, "I never thought I’d have a senior role—not because of my capabilities, but because I believed, as an Anglo-Indian woman of color, it wouldn’t be allowed. Won an Amazing Women Award for: s upporting the homeless and those living in extreme poverty through the charity Chance Changing Lives and the launch of a Social Supermarket. The selfless women who work for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. I was a regular visitor to their home in Maputo, Mozambique, for 150 children under five. marks 1,100 years since the death of Aethelflaed, the most powerful woman of the Anglo-Saxon era. A diplomat, warrior, general, scholar and mother, Aethelflaed ruled with remarkable dexterity, tact and fortitude and played a major part in laying the foundation for a united England.

Susie continues to raise awareness for the charity, which is completely reliant upon donations and legacies. Guide Dogs supports adults and children with sight loss to live the life they choose, thanks to expert advice, dedicated volunteers and staff, and life-changing dogs. My maternal grandmother Minnie raised 13 children, taught herself to read and write, did many jobs to support her family and for a woman of her generation showed an enlightened acceptance of all people.

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) I have met many inspirational women who have the courage to stand up for what they believe. I’m in awe of Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, who has shown the power of great leadership. She is an incredible role model. Angela says, ‘I’d always been a healthy eater and active, but as I entered my 50s, I felt everything was going downhill. The tipping point came in 2019 – my father died, my ex-husband was poorly and I felt really low. I am so pleased people now recognise the need for our service. It means we can help make children’s lives safer.

Flannery O'Connor with Robie Macauley and Arthur Koestler. / Cmacauley, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 The music business can be ruthless. But Dolly Parton, a country music sensation since the 1960s, has long been the steward of her own ship. By retaining control of much of her music, she’s used the proceeds for everything from unlikely business success stories (the Dollywood theme park) to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which has distributed more than 150 million books to instill a love of reading in young people. In music, Parton explored genres and wrote and performed lyrics that were seen as progressive in their era, speaking directly to working-class women who felt like they weren’t being given a voice. They had at least one—Parton’s. —JR 96. Cecilia Payne 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." Won an Amazing Women Award for: Being f ounder of the British Hen Welfare Trust, which has saved 750,000 hens from slaughter.

Whenever I go into a centre and see hundreds of people, I feel ashamed, not personally, but of this country, for allowing homelessness to be so rife. Actor, comedian and writer Meera Syal CBE, 59, has been working with Alzheimer’s Society, the UK’s leading dementia charity, since 2013. My mother is my ‘shero’. We call her ‘The Silent Warrior’. She came to the UK from Sierra Leone and is the quintessential rags to riches story – her power to influence people was astonishing. Virginia Apgar’s career was full of firsts: In 1937, she became the first female board-certified anesthesiologist and the first woman to achieve the rank of professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she was the first professor of anesthesiology. In 1952, she presented a five-step system for assessing the condition of newborn babies within a minute of birth and periodically after that. Prior to the development of the test—in which nurses or other delivery room staff assess a baby’s skin color, heart rate, reflexes, muscle tone, and breathing—babies weren’t typically given much attention after birth, which could lead to problems being missed until it was too late. Maria Eitel spent the early days of her career working for the White House and Microsoft before joining Nike as the company’s first vice president of corporate responsibility. In 2004, she founded the Nike Foundation and created the theory of The Girl Effect—the idea that adolescent girls have a unique ability to stop poverty before it starts. Eitel is also founder and chair of Girl Effect, an organization with a goal of helping 250 million young girls below the poverty line in four key areas: ending early marriage and delaying first birth, enhancing the health and safety of girls, increasing secondary school completion and improving access to economic assets. Her work has already helped millions of girls around the world and is only getting started.Won an Amazing Women Award for: Being f ounder of the charity Fresh Start New Beginnings, supporting children who have suffered sexual abuse. Besides being the first female Asian mayor in Amersham, I have also been vice-chair and then chair of the district council I still serve. My first successful campaign involved halting parking charges in an area where they would have killed retail businesses.