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Women that inspire us

In honour of International Women’s Day, here are some of the women that have inspired us to be the best we can be.

Serena Williams

Undoubtedly one of the greatest tennis players ever, Serena has been at the top of her game for over 20 years, winning 23 grand slam titles.

Former world number 1, Serena also serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, helping to establish schools to provide quality education to vulnerable children in Africa and Asia.

Kamala Harris

His icon made history in 2020 when she was elected as the 49th Vice President of the United States. This made her the highest-ranking female official in U.S. history, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president.

Kamala began her political career in 2015 when she was elected to the senate, after a successful campaign trail where she called for immigration and criminal-justice reforms, increases to the minimum wage, and protection of women’s reproductive rights.

Emma Watson

Most people know Emma best as book-worm Hermionie Granger in the Harry Potter films, but she has also dedicated a lot of her time to philanthropy and charity work.

In 2014 she was appointed a UN Women Goodwill ambassador, and since then has frequently been in the media for equality campaigning and has been involved in the promotion of girls’ education for several years and previously visited Bangladesh and Zambia as part of her humanitarian efforts.

Amal Clooney

Although she became a household name in 2014 due to her marriage to famous actor George Clooney, Amal was already a successful Human Rights Lawyer in her own right long before she met George.

Celebrated humanitarian, high-powered barrister, and mother of twins with her actor husband George. Amal is licensed to practice law in both the United Kingdom and the United States, and has been involved with a number of high-profile cases.

Whitney Wolfe Herd

The founder and CEO of Bumble, Whitney became the world's youngest female self-made billionaire after taking the company public in 2021.

Bumble is a popular social and dating app, which unlike other dating apps, empowers women to make the first moves in both love and business.

Giovanna Fletcher

Giovanna is a successful Mummy-blogger, Author, actress, , vlogger and presenter. Since 2019, she has presented the CBeebies series The Baby Club.

Her podcast "Happy Mum, Happy Baby" discusses all aspects of parenthood - the highs, the lows, the challenges and rewards and is essential viewing for any parent seeking solidarity and support.

The mum-of-three also won series 20 of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!

Jesy Nelson

Jesy shot to fame after winning the show X Factor with the Band Little Mix, and went on to have huge success in the charts.

However, fame brought the attention of online trolls, which was shown in her award-winning documentary “Odd One Out.”

The BBC documentary explored the impact of online bullying, and raised awareness of mental health, self-esteem and body-image, issues that affect millions of people around the world.

Emmeline Pankhurst

One of the first faces in the feminist movement, Emmeline was born in Manchester in 1858.

She was the leader of the UK suffragette movement called “Women’s Social and Political Union”, an organisation that ultimately led to women gaining the right to vote.

The road to being granted the vote was not an easy one, and the movement led to many of the activists arrested and many went on hunger strike, which happened to Emmeline several times.

Jacinda Ahern

While the rest of the world continues to battle COVID, there is one nation that has returned to relative normality, and stamped out the disease - New Zealand.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ahern is the youngest female Head of Government, and has received praise and endorsements worldwide for her smooth handling of the pandemic.

In the 2020 general election, she gained an outright majority of 65 seats in Parliament, the first time this has happened since the introduction of proportional representation in 1996.