She shared the prestigious 2019 Award for Science Diplomacy for the feat.I am very happy to see young female scientists at SESAME today, either as staff members or as users.
I promote peace at all levels, and I'm confident that women are able to very soon change the status quo in fields historically designated to men, such as peace building and conflict mediation.Tabata Amaral, one of Brazil's youngest congresswomen, came to national attention this year when a video of her grilling the country's education minister went viral. We genuinely are a resilient group that come back stronger than before.Huang Wensi, 29, is one of a small but growing number of female boxers in China.Challenging traditional stereotypes of women's roles, she overcame postpartum depression to win the Asia Female Continental Super Flyweight Championship gold belt in 2018. Without home there is no future. Movements like Me Too continue highlighting the Who are the most inspiring women of 2019? They know that the greatest women in history change the game for the generations that follow in terms of the power and the presence women have in society. She grew up on her family's farm in rural Lebanon, but when civil war prompted a move to the city, she was awakened to the disturbing realities of air pollution.After watching relatives, friends and colleagues develop health complications as a result of exposure to toxic substances in the environment, she hopes her innovative work with a Beirut university will make it possible to address some of the most pressing environmental challenges. Government data and policy will also respond to the reality of women's work, both paid and unpaid.Trang Nguyen grew up in Vietnam, confronted from a young age with monkeys chained up for sale on the streets and bears held to extract bile for traditional medicine. Now is the time to speak clearly.Self-taught computer programmer Paola helped reverse 20,000 racially-biased drugs convictions by developing Data for Justice, a tool with an interactive map comparing police activity in white and minority neighborhoods.She won the MIT Innovators Under 35 Latam award for the project.There's still time to use data and technology to redistribute power among those that have been historically forgotten. They give us their vision of what life could look like in 2030. (Winnie Mandela)Hailed as 'India's space woman', spaceship designer Susmita founded India's first space start-up.A passionate climate action advocate, she uses her business to help monitor and understand climate change from space.I fear that in three to four generations our home planet will not be very habitable anymore. My hope for the future is that more and more people engage with the arts. Vote up the most influential women below and feel free to add anyone you think is missing!Lists about brave, brilliant, and fascinating women who have changed the whole entire world.
Each year during its search for the most influential women in UK technology, Computer Weekly asks the tech industry to nominate who it thinks should be considered for the top 50. When Maria Fernanda Espinosa became president of the UN General Assembly, she became only the fourth woman to hold the position in the body's history - and the first from Latin America and the Caribbean.She has called on governments to put forward billions of dollars to tackle climate change, and announced her determination to fight gender discrimination.I envisage a future where efforts by the multilateral systems have led to the equal participation of men and women in politics, and to the protection of the rights of women who fight daily for jobs with equal conditions, and of women and girls who are the victims of violence.As South Africa faces rising rates of murder and rape against women and girls, Lucinda has emerged as a voice for women. He is one of thousands of "disappeared" there - leading Parveena to set up the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP). Equal opportunities and equal basic liberties...everyone working to improve their emotional intelligence and their intelligence quotient. She is the first female lawyer from the persecuted Hazara community, and in 2018 she went on hunger strike demanding protection for her people. From black and white photographs of Saudi Arabia's female workforce, to a frozen flock of birds imprinted with the permission slip Saudi women require to travel. I urge more women to participate and take up refereeingProfessor Saliba is conducting world-leading research on polluted air. When people want to stop talking about the issues that black women face, trans women face, immigrant women face, we've got to ask them, ‘Why does that make you so uncomfortable?' Hurtado's environmental advocacy continues to inform the visual language of her work.Tired of the pain she suffered wearing heels eight hours a day at work, Yumi decided to vent her frustration on Twitter.Within days, Japan's #kutoo movement was born, with thousands of women sharing stories about being forced to wear heels to work as part of their uniform.