HEAR FROM DIVERSE WOMEN SHAPING THE WORLD TODAY
HEAR FROM DIVERSE WOMEN SHAPING THE WORLD TODAY
The Female Lead has teamed up with Future Finder to show you which jobs are growing and need you! You can use this website to see which A-Level choices can earn you the most money and understand how what you learn in the classroom is relevant to the outside world.
Each job description comes with a minimum and maximum salary, the different industries you could be working in and the skills required for that job.
The Female Lead has teamed up with Future Finder to show you which jobs are growing and need you! You can use this website to see which A-Level choices can earn you the most money and understand how what you learn in the classroom is relevant to the outside world.
Each job description comes with a minimum and maximum salary, the different industries you could be working in and the skills required for that job.
POSITIVE ROLE MODELS TO FOLLOW
ACTIVISTS
YEONMI PARK
Yeonmi Park is a human rights activist. In 2007 Yeonmi and her mother defected from North Korea, finding asylum in South Korea. Since then she has spoken out against the brutal communist regime in North Korea. Her memoir, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, was published in 2015.
LEYMAH GBOWEE
Leymah is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women’s nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. She was awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her non-violent struggle for the safety of women.
TUNGGAL PAWESTRI
Tunggal Pawestri is a prominent women’s rights activist in Indonesia. She works as the Executive Director of the Humanist and Social Innovation Foundation, a regional (Southeast Asia) organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It focuses on Gender Equality, Civic Rights, and Climate Justice. She regularly writes op-eds mainly on women’s rights issues for different media outlets. Right now she serves as one of the Independent Global Women's Safety Expert Advisors of META
NIMCO ALI OBE
Nimco Ali is an FGM survivor, strategist and author. Born in Somaliland, she grew up in the UK. In 2019, she co-founded The Five Foundation, The Global Partnership To End FGM. She also co-founded Daughters of Eve in 2010. Nimco’s work has helped to position FGM as a central issue in ending violence against women and girls. From 2020-2022 she was also the independent advisor on violence against women and girls for the UK Home Office.
GLORIA STEINEM
Gloria is a acclaimed journalist, trailblazing feminist, and one of the most visible, passionate leaders and spokeswomen of the women’s rights movement in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. An award-winning writer, Steinem has authored several books, including best-selling My Life on the Road.
NAMITA BHANDARE
Namita is a Delhi-based journalist who has been writing exclusively on gender issues since 2012. She writes on women and work, body image, culture, the law, gender norms, teenage aspirations. Her weekly newsletter Mind the Gap looks at developments around the world through a gender lens and she advocates passionately for a gender equal world.
GLORIA FELDT
Gloria Feldt is a The New York Times best-selling author, speaker, commentator, and feminist leader who has gained national recognition as a social and political advocate of women’s rights. She is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership. cofounder and president of Take The Lead, a nonprofit organization with the mission of gender parity in leadership for all women by 2025.
CASAR JACOBSON
Casar Jacobson is a disability and gender equality rights activist and UN Women Youth Champion. Having lost her hearing in both ears, Jacobson is profoundly deaf. Casar is Former Miss Canada, Miss Global Peace and Deaf International Entrepreneur. She was the winner of Miss Canada Globe 2012/2013.
GINA MARTIN
Gina Martin is a British gender equality activist, writer and speaker. She is known for her campaign to make upskirting illegal in England and Wales, which led to the 2019 Voyeurism (Offences) Act and changing global instagram policy alongside Nyome Nicholas-Williams. Her second book No Offence, But... is being released this summer
WADE DAVIS
Former NFL Player Wade Davis is an educator and advisor on gender, race, and orientation equality, and the VP of Inclusion for Product at Netflix. Wade's work is focused on the intersection of sexism, racism, and homophobia and building an inclusive culture, community, and leadership strategies. Wade is a UN Women Global Impact Champion, and on the board of both the Ms. Foundation for Women and MeToo.
ADWOA ABOAH
Adwoa Aboah is a model, activist and an ambassador for diversity in fashion with the British Fashion Council. After her own personal struggles with sobriety and a concern over the lack of mental-health resources for young women, in 2017 Aboah launched an organisation for young women called Gurls Talk.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI
Malala is an activist for female education. As a girl, Malala defied the Taliban in Pakistan and demanded that girls be allowed to receive an education. She was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012 but survived. In 2014, she became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
EMMA WATSON
Emma Watson is an English actress, model and activist. She is best known for her portrayal of Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film franchise. In recent years she has focused on feminist activism, most notably as a UN Goodwill Ambassador for the HeForShe campaign. Photo: Georges Biard, CC BY-SA 3.0
GRETA THUNBERG
Greta is a Swedish teenage environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition. Age 15, she began spending her school days outside the Swedish parliament holding up a sign saying (in Swedish) “School strike for climate”. Photo by Anders Hellberg.
JAMEELA JAMIL
Jameela is an actor, activist and founder of the body positivity Instagram movement 'I Weigh'. She noticed a toxic trend of pop-culture media judging women by their size, and took it upon herself to flip the script and measure women by the weight that really matters - that of their accomplishments.
THE SIS
Florence-Olivia (BA, MA, PhD) and Marie-Emmanuelle (BA, MA, PhD), the Canadian sisters behind The Sis are researchers and speakers on sexual and domestic violence. As experts on women's rights and elimination of all forms of discrimination, their mission is to make the world a more just place. They've worked with corporations, NGOs, public sector orgs. and provincial and national governments on a number of equity issues, including Plan International, the Canadian Women's Foundation and the UN Women.
LADY PHYLL
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah is a stalwart of the LGBTQ+ community, both as the co-founder of UK Black Pride and the Kaleidoscope Trust - an international charity working to advance human rights for LGBTQ+ people around the world. She wants to help workplaces understand the importance of intersectionality.
MARGREEN
Margarita is the founder of Margreen and Behind the Greens Media - a company that creates 'spicy' environmental content with the aim of shining a light on environmental solutions, technological advancements, and unconventional people who are making a difference through creative storytelling. BTG is also training the next generation of GREENpreneurs and GREENfluencers!
Hannah Graf
Hannah Graf came out as a transgender woman in 2013 and was one of the highest-ranking transgender soldiers in the British Army, serving with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. A decorated officer, she became the Army’s Transgender Representative and advised on transgender policy. In 2015, she was made a patron of Mermaids, one of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ charities. In 2019, she retired from the Army and was awarded an MBE.
GINA MILLER
Gina rose to fame with her legal case to defend Parliament’s sovereignty, arguing that the British Government could not start the formal process of the UK leaving the EU without seeking approval from Parliament. She won what was considered to be the most important constitutional cases for hundreds of years.
Sharon Gaffka
Sharon Gaffka is a former civil-servant, turned VAWG campaigner and Refuge Ambassador. After becoming a victim of spiking in 2020, Sharon has been campaigning for a more proactive approach to the crime. Sharon was a former Miss International UK, and now hosts the ‘Girls Know Nothing’ podcast, dedicated to showcasing female leaders who have battled gender bias in their industries.
