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Valentina Tereshkova: The Textile Worker Who Became the First Woman in Space
31
Dec
2025
Posted in Breaking Stereotypes Women in Science, Tech & Innovation

Valentina Tereshkova: The Textile Worker Who Became the First Woman in Space

On 6 March 1937, in the tiny village of Bolshoye Maslennikovo, 250 km northeast of Moscow, a…

The Power List 2025: 25 Women Leading the Global Shift
31
Dec
2025
Posted in Trailblazing Women Women Changemakers

The Power List 2025: 25 Women Leading the Global Shift

In an era defined by rapid technological shifts, climate urgency, and a global redefinition of leadership, 2025…

Maryam Mirzakhani: The Quiet Genius Who Redrew the Map of Mathematics
29
Dec
2025
Posted in Women in Science, Tech & Innovation Trailblazing Women

Maryam Mirzakhani: The Quiet Genius Who Redrew the Map of Mathematics

In the spring of 1977, in the bustling heart of Tehran, Iran, a girl was born who…

huda
26
Dec
2025
Posted in Trailblazing Women

Huda Kattan: The Iraqi-American Who Built a Billion-Dollar Beauty Empire from a Blog and a Borrowed $6,000

In a modest apartment in Dubai in 2010, a 27-year-old finance worker named Huda Kattan quit her…

Sri Mulyani Indrawati: The Iron Lady of Indonesia’s Economy Who Refuses to Flinch
24
Dec
2025
Posted in Women Changemakers

Sri Mulyani Indrawati: The Iron Lady of Indonesia’s Economy Who Refuses to Flinch

In the bustling port city of Bandar Lampung, Sumatra, on 26 August 1962, a girl was born…

Rani Rampal: The Youngest Trailblazer Who Carried Indian Women's Hockey on Her Shoulders
22
Dec
2025
Posted in Everyday Heroes Women in Sports & Fitness

Rani Rampal: The Youngest Trailblazer Who Carried Indian Women’s Hockey on Her Shoulders

In the dusty fields of Haryana’s Shahabad village, where the summer sun scorches the earth and hockey…

The Lynching of Dipu Chandra Das: A Brutal Killing in Bangladesh and the Global Silence Surrounding It
22
Dec
2025
Posted in Social Issues

The Lynching of Dipu Chandra Das: A Brutal Killing in Bangladesh and the Global Silence Surrounding It

On the night of December 18, 2025, in Bhaluka Upazila of Mymensingh district, Bangladesh, a 25-year-old Hindu…

Tu Youyou: The Quiet Pharmacist Who Saved Hundreds of Millions of Lives
19
Dec
2025
Posted in Breaking Stereotypes Women in Science, Tech & Innovation

Tu Youyou: The Quiet Pharmacist Who Saved Hundreds of Millions of Lives

In the misty hills of Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, on 30 December 1930, a girl was born who…

Giorgia Meloni: Italy's Unyielding Guardian of Sovereignty and Stability
17
Dec
2025
Posted in Breaking Stereotypes Women Changemakers

Giorgia Meloni: Italy’s Unyielding Guardian of Sovereignty and Stability

In the eternal city of Rome, where emperors once etched their legacies into marble and the Tiber…

Rigoberta Menchú Tum: The Voice That Turned Indigenous Grief into Global Conscience
15
Dec
2025
Posted in Women Changemakers Everyday Heroes

Rigoberta Menchú Tum: The Voice That Turned Indigenous Grief into Global Conscience

In the cloud-wrapped highlands of Chimel, a tiny Maya-K’iche’ village in Guatemala’s Quiché department, Rigoberta Menchú Tum…

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: The Economist Who Bent Global Trade Toward Fairness
12
Dec
2025
Posted in Women Changemakers Trailblazing Women

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: The Economist Who Bent Global Trade Toward Fairness

In the humid pulse of Nigeria’s Delta region, where the Niger River fans out into a thousand…

Vasundhara Raje: The Architect of Rajasthan's Quiet Revolution
10
Dec
2025
Posted in Women Changemakers

Vasundhara Raje: The Architect of Rajasthan’s Quiet Revolution

In the sun-baked expanses of Rajasthan, where sand dunes whisper secrets of endurance and the Aravalli hills…

Tawakkol Karman: The Voice Yemen Could Not Silence
08
Dec
2025
Posted in Women Changemakers Women in Arts, Media & Entertainment

Tawakkol Karman: The Voice Yemen Could Not Silence

Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman Karman was born on 7 February 1979 in Taiz, Yemen’s third-largest city and its…

The Woman Who Made Football Bleed Gold: Fatma Samoura – The Senegalese Diplomat Who Conquered FIFA and Rewrote the Beautiful Game
05
Dec
2025
Posted in Women in Sports & Fitness Trailblazing Women

The Woman Who Made Football Bleed Gold: Fatma Samoura – The Senegalese Diplomat Who Conquered FIFA and Rewrote the Beautiful Game

In 2016, when FIFA was bleeding credibility after the biggest corruption scandal in sports history, one woman…

sian proctor
03
Dec
2025
Posted in Women in Science, Tech & Innovation Women in Arts, Media & Entertainment

The Sky Shepherd: Sian Proctor – The First Black Woman to Pilot a Spacecraft and the Artist-Scientist Building Humanity’s Future Off-Planet

On September 15, 2021, at 8:02 p.m. EDT, a 51-year-old community-college geology professor from Tempe, Arizona, became…