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Top 10 most powerful women of 2023. Giorgia Meloni. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission. Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank. Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States. Giorgia Meloni, Prime Minister of Italy. Taylor Swift, musician. Karen Lynch, CEO of CVS Health.
Some of the most incredible inventors, writers, politicians, & activists have been women. From Ida B. Wells to Sally Ride, here are women who changed the world. 22 Famous Women in History You Need ...
Hungarian-American MIT inventor Mária Telkes and American architect Eleanor Raymond created, in 1947, the Dover Sun House, the first house powered by solar energy. Wrinkle-free fiber. Wrinkle-free fiber invented by Ruth R. Benerito The invention was said to have "saved the cotton industry".
The most Nobel Prizes awarded to women in a single year was in 2009, when five women became laureates in four categories. The most recent women to be awarded a Nobel Prize were Claudia Goldin in Economics, Narges Mohammadi for Peace, Anne L'Huillier in Physics and Katalin Karikó in Physiology or Medicine (2023), Annie Ernaux in Literature and ...
Muslim feminist; organizer for the Mubarrat Muhammad Ali (women's social service organization), the Union of Educated Egyptian Women and the Wafdist Women's Central Committee, founder and first president of the Egyptian Feminist Union. 1875–1939. Alix Kates Shulman. United States.
There were 337 women listed on the world's billionaires as of 4 April 2023, up from 327 in 2022. [1] Since 2021, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers has been listed as the world's wealthiest woman. According to a 2021 billionaire census, women make up 11.9% of the billionaire cohort, and "just over half of all female billionaires are heiresses, with ...
List of Greek women artists. List of Hungarian women artists. List of Icelandic women artists. List of Indian women artists. List of Indian women in dance. List of Iranian women artists. List of Iraqi women artists. List of Irish women artists. List of Israeli women artists.
1889: Anna Bissell, first female CEO in the United States of America. [51] [52] 1903: Maggie L. Walker, first African-American woman to charter a bank. [citation needed] [53] 1915: Helena Rubinstein, first woman to found a cosmetics company. [54] 1945: Ruth Handler, first female president of a major toy company.