15 Female Athletes Who Broke Barriers in Sports By Leesa Davis The sports world would be very different without any of the women mentioned on this list. It’s impossible to deny the significant accomplishments of these athletes, but many of them represent more than medals, trophies, and numbers on scoreboards. These barrier-breaking women disrupted long-held traditions, particularly at a time…
Kamala Harris Blazed a Trail. These Women Are Walking It San Francisco mayor London Breed (pictured above, left, next to Kamala Harris, right), Cook County top prosecutor Kim Foxx, and Public Rights Project founder Jill Habig pay tribute to their mentor. In her inaugural speech as the first woman elected vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris invoked a…
With women trailblazers like Susan B. Anthony and Rosa Parks fighting for equality, women today can be just about anything they set their minds to. In the last 150 years, women’s roles have changed dramatically across the world. Although work is still being done for equal rights for all, here are a few of the women who broke down huge barriers: Shirley Chisholm…
By Madeline Hislop When Sharon Chuter was a teenager, she asked Revlon if she could be their distributor in her home country, Nigeria. She had been struck by the fact that hardly any major beauty brands had made their way into the Nigerian market, and she wanted to do something about it. Revlon said yes, and with that, Chuter got her…
