Women in the public eye who do what they do *well*

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

There's many a thread popping up on MN basically just bashing women.

"Adele got thin, now she will be shit"
"Doesn't Tess Daly just have the kind if face you want to punch?"
Etc.

So I want us to talk about women in the public eye who do a fucking good job at whatever it is they are known for.

Olivia Colman Amazing actress, seems kind and happy. Picks great roles and plays them well. Doesn't court media attention.

Dawn O Porter writes great books about women who feel real. Situations that are normal and true and sometimes raw. Instagram stories the mad moments and doesn't do stuff for show.

Shakira - don't think much of her music but she seems to do some genuinely great charity work in Columbia that she is personally very involved with: www.insidephilanthropy.com/glitzy-giving/shakira

Adwoa Aboah - does some great advocacy for girls

Masie Williams - just seems like such a cool girl, and blazing a trail for actresses who aren't 'conventional pretty'

marin alsop

Anne Boden. Heard her being interviewed and as a panel member, she really impressed me

a bit controversial for sure: Sarah Huckabee Sanders
she was bloody brilliant at her job at the white house

Angela Merkel

this is making me slightly tearful.

So many great women, so little recognition.

I would like to add Maggie Thatcher, hated her politics but as a woman she achieved so much in terms of showing that dusty old white men weren't the only ones capable of being strong in politics.

Ann Diamond, for SIDS awareness

The many unrecognised women of Bletchley Park whose code breaking skills were seen as just 'admin'.

I actually bloody love Vanessa Feltz-

Me too. She’s brilliant.

Michelle Obama ,such grace under enormous stress and the work she does with young adults

Gina millar

So many great women, so little recognition

It’s a great thread, isn’t it?

I, too, considered listing Maggie earlier but then remembered that I hated her guts. I was being silly. She fully deserves to be here: first female PM, she won three consecutive elections and was a tough negotiator. I’m pretty sure she’d have sorted Brexit out!

Mary Beard
Jess Ennis-Hill
Nicola Sturgeon
Michelle Obama
Alex Scott
Steph McGovern

Holly Willoughby - much maligned on here but is excellent at her job, always seems so natural and relaxed when presenting. Also does well to protect her children’s identities when so many other celebrities display their kids on the front page of OK.

Isabel Oakeshott
Julia Hartley-Brewer
Kate Andrews.

Oprah Winfrey
Michelle Obama
Laura Kuenssberg

and my mum (but shes not in the public eye!)

The bloody marvellous actresses/singers/dancers in SIX the musical. Young girls rocking it every bloody night.

Adele.

Olivia Coleman.

Sarah Lancaster.

Vicki McClure

Davina McCall
Nadia Sawalha
Vanessa Feltz
Anne Diamond
My favourite ladies on tele need to see more of them

Definitely Vanessa Feltz - I love her.
Ruth Jones
JK Rowling
Laura Kenny
Karren Brady
Oprah
Nicola Sturgeon (and I’m not an snp supporter)
Ruth Davidson (and I’m also not a Tory)
Rachel Burden
Kirsty Young
Greta Thunberg

Merkel, May and Thatcher.

Totally disagree with most of their politics, but all are amazing strong women. Putting up with shite no man would have to.

Has anybody said Lady Hale yet?

Lady Hale! In spades.

Vanessa Feltz all the way here too!
Great mind and sharp with it.

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla
Lauren Zhang

Amy Lee, Lzzy Hale, Jen Majura, Sharon den Adel, Tarja Turunen, Anette Olzon, Floor Jensen, Simone Simmons and Cristina Scabbia, for holding their own in the rock/metal scene and for having amazing talent. They get stick from the kind of idiots who don't think women should be in metal (those people are wrong and stupid,) or for doing things like taking time off for having kids. Or they're criticised for being 'fat' or not looking like they did in their 20s.

Lindsay Stirling is amazing too, and kinda crosses into that territory with her work with Lzzy, Amy and Evanescence. She's amazingly talented too (and gets criticism for the most stupid of things, like wearing a dress.)

I love Angela Merkel, she's like the grown up in the room!

Another one for Vanesa Feltz!

Nicola Adams , Jennifer Aniston, Late Middleton, to name but a few.

They have grace.

Oh I am loving these. I hate women hating on women and yes to all!!

I’ll get disagreements , but I’d like to add Cressida Dick . Far and away the best boss I’ve ever worked for , and the only one in recent years who actually gives a shit about her troops, and has been brave enough to take on the government in public .