Women are not well represented in leadership positions and their accomplishments are often ignored or reported with a rather skewed perception from a men's prospective. This blog here in an unimportant and remote corner of the internet jungle will not change that but if I can inspire a few souls, it was at least worth the effort.
This is the second part of a list of women role models. The list is incomplete and is based to a great part on information from the internet which can be inaccurate. As always I'm grateful for any suggestions and correction! The first part was about women from India, this part is about women from USA and Canada.
Adrienne Germain
President of the International Women’s Health Coalition. She designed programs to advance the health and education of girls and women in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Adrienne Rich
A poet, essayist and feminist.
Al-jen Poo
Helped to found Domestic Workers United, mobilized New York’s nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers to the elderly to fight for recognition and fair compensation.
Alice Walker
An African American writer and poet.
Amy Goodman
A progressive broadcast journalist, syndicated columnist, reporter and author.
Angela Davis
A political activist, scholar and author. Associated with the with the Communist Party, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black Panther.
Anika Rahman
Is the President of Americans for UNFPA
Antonia Juhasz
A policy-analyst, author and activist. Author of The Tyranny of Oil.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Singer, composer, scholar, activist. Sweet Honey in the Rock.
Bertha Gilkey
An African American activist of tenant management and public housing properties.
Bree Walker
A TV network news anchor and radio host.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
A Native American singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, social activist.
Carol W. Greider
A molecular biologist at John Hopkins University. She was awarded the 2009 Nobel Price for Physiology/Medicine.
Christina Ricci
An actress.
Christy Turlington Burns
Founder of Every Mother Counts, Model, Maternal Health Advocate, Documentary Filmmaker. In 2010, she financed and directed No Woman No Cry, a documentary which features the powerful stories of four at-risk pregnant women.
Cindy Sherman
A photographer and film director, known for her conceptual portraits.
Diane Keaton
An actress, director, producer and screenwriter.
Donna Smith
A Social Justice activist. Featured in Michael Moore’s documentary Sicko.
Edna Lee Paisano
A Native American mathematician and social activist.
Elinor Ostrom
An economist, who won the Nobel Price 2009 in economic sciences.
Elizabeth Blackburn
A biological researcher at the University of California. She won the 2009 Nobel Price in Physiology/Medicine.
Emily Heroy
She founded Gender Across Borders (GAB), where a team of feminist bloggers are dedicated to examining gender, race, sexuality, and class worldwide.
Erykah Badu
A recording artist, record producer and actress.
Esther Pearson
A mathematician, technologist, and educator. Assistant professor of mathematics at Lasell College.
Faye Wattleton
The first African American president of Planned Parenthood (family planning and reproductive health.)
Gloria Steinem
Writer, Feminist, Organizer and Activist. Steinem co-founded Ms. Magazine in 1972.
Grace Lee Boggs
A Detroit-based radical organizer and philosopher. She has been involved with the civil rights movement, Black Power, labor, environmental justice, and the feminist movement.
Helene Gayle
Since 2006 head of CARE, an international anti-poverty organization. CARE has placed women at the heart of its work, which includes over 800 anti-poverty projects reaching 59 million people in 72 countries.
Jane Alexander
An actress and activist
Jesselyn Radack
A former ethics adviser to the US Department of Justice who came to prominence as a whistleblower after she disclosed that the FBI committed ethics violations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesselyn_Radack
Jill W. Sheffield
President of Women Deliver. In 1987, Sheffield co-founded Family Care International.
Joan Baez
A folk singer, songwriter and activist.
Jody Williams
A teacher and aid worker who received the 1997 Nobel Peace Price for her contribution to the campaign to ban land mines.
Joyce Baskins
A African American political activist.
Karma Lekshe Tsomo
A Buddhist nun, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, Director of the Jamyang Foundation.
Judith Butler
A philosopher and feminist. She is a professor of rhetoric and literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
k.d. lang
A Canadian singer, songwriter
Linda B. Buck
A biologist known for her work on the olfactory system. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Price in Physiology/Medicine.
Lynsey Addario
Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist. Her photography has covered issues ranging from maternal mortality in Sierra Leone to the lives of female soldiers in the US military, from victims of sexual assault in the Congo to the self-immolation of women in Afghanistan
Margaret Eleanor Atwood
A Canadian poet, novelist, and critic, noted for her feminism.
Marian Wright Edelman
An advocate for disadvantaged Americans and President of CDF.
Maude Barlow
A Canadian author and activist. Co-founder of the Blue Planet Project.
Maya Angelou
An African American poet, novelist, activist, actress.
Oprah Winfrey
A TV producer and founder of the Oprah Winfrey Foundation and the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. The only African American woman to be ever in the Forbes 400.
Patti Austin
A singer and Grammy winner. Jazz, Soul, R&B.
Roberta Flack
An African American singer, Grammy winner. Jazz, Soul, R&B.
Rachel Maddow
Host of “The Rachel Maddow Show”
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
A medical physicist, who won the 1977 Nobel Price in Physiology/Medicine.
Ruby Bridges
The first black child to attend a white school in New Orleans. A social activist.
Sejal Hathi
At just 15, Hathi founded Girls Helping Girls, which connects girls in the US with girls in the developing world to identify problems in their local communities -- and then develop projects.
Susan Sarandon
An actress and political activist.
Tara McKelvey
A journalist and senior editor at The American Prospect.
Terry Tempest Williams
An author, naturalist, and conservationist.
Tina Fey
An actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has received seven Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.
Tina Turner
An African American singer and actress.
Toni Morrison
A novelist, editor, and professor She won the Nobel Price 1993 for Literature and the Pulitzer Price 1988.
Tsultrim Allione
An an author and teacher for Tibetan Buddhism.
Wendy Kopp
The founder and CEO of Teach for America
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