International Women’s Day is coming up Wed. March 8. Who are some of the trailblazing women who come to mind who inspire you most?
Some of my favs — Amelia Earhart, Harriet Tubman, Indira Ghandi, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinhem, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Margaret Thatcher, Oprah, Arianna Huffington, and Greta Thornburg.
Just for fun I turned to ChatGPT to see what it would come up with as a list of the top 50 trailblazing women to honor for International Women’s Day. (uh, Margaret Thatcher wasn’t on this list. Who else would you add to this? Please comment below!)
- Malala Yousafzai – activist for girls’ education
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Supreme Court Justice and women’s rights advocate
- Ada Lovelace – mathematician and computer programming pioneer
- Amelia Earhart – aviation pioneer and first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
- Frida Kahlo – Mexican artist and feminist icon
- Jane Goodall – primatologist and conservationist
- Oprah Winfrey – media mogul and philanthropist
- Katherine Johnson – NASA mathematician and space program pioneer
- Ellen DeGeneres – comedian, actress, and LGBTQ+ advocate
- Angela Davis – political activist and scholar
- Maya Angelou – poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist
- Wangari Maathai – environmentalist and women’s rights activist
- Rosalind Franklin – chemist and X-ray crystallographer who contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure
- Mary Jackson – NASA engineer and space program pioneer
- Serena Williams – tennis player and women’s sports advocate
- Ellen Ochoa – astronaut and first Hispanic woman to go to space
- Alice Paul – suffragist and women’s rights activist
- Dolly Parton – singer, songwriter, and philanthropist
- Grace Hopper – computer scientist and programming language pioneer
- Sally Ride – astronaut and first American woman in space
- Elizabeth Blackwell – first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States
- Aung San Suu Kyi – Burmese politician and democracy advocate
- Simone de Beauvoir – French philosopher and feminist writer
- Harriet Tubman – abolitionist and women’s rights activist
- Indira Gandhi – Indian politician and first female Prime Minister of India
- Ada Hegerberg – Norwegian footballer and outspoken advocate for gender equality in sports
- Wangari Maathai – Kenyan environmentalist and women’s rights activist
- Mary Shelley – author of Frankenstein and early feminist writer
- Rigoberta Menchú – Guatemalan indigenous rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Gloria Steinem – journalist, author, and feminist activist
- Tarana Burke – activist and founder of the #MeToo movement
- Mary Wollstonecraft – English writer and advocate for women’s rights
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Liberian politician and first female president of an African country
- Emma Watson – actress and UN Women Goodwill Ambassador
- Dorothy Vaughan – NASA mathematician and space program pioneer
- Shirin Ebadi – Iranian lawyer and human rights activist
- Marie Curie – physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Nigerian author and feminist thinker
- Greta Thunberg – Swedish climate activist
- Marie Stopes – birth control advocate and women’s rights activist
- Nadia Comăneci – Romanian gymnast and Olympic gold medalist
- Sojourner Truth – abolitionist and women’s rights activist
- Rachel Carson – marine biologist and environmentalist
- Fatima Al-Fihri – founder of the world’s oldest university, the University of Al Quaraouiyine in Morocco
- Benazir Bhutto – Pakistani politician and first female Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Alice Ball – chemist who developed a groundbreaking treatment for leprosy
- Wangari Maathai – Kenyan environmentalist and women’s rights activist
- Edith Wharton – American novelist and women’s rights advocate
… and then it conched out at #49 which leaves us space for you to fill in a couple you think to be missing. Who would you add?
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