To ask, who is your female role model?

[Ethelfleda]

Preferably a famous personality so we can gain some context but doesn’t have to be.

So if you could be like another person, who would you choose? And why?
And if there is nobody you’d like to emulate, why?

Mary Beard is sticking out to me at the moment - I have no major knowledge of her but I watched her beautifully wipe the floor with Boris Johnson in an Intelligence squared debate about Ancient Greece vs Ancient Rome. Intellect won over the orator.

Any thoughts?

Jess Phillips

JKR also.

Myself.
The only person I want to be is myself, and the only person I would want to imitate is myself. I've never seen the point in having a role model, because you'll never feel you match up to that person.

@Mummiepig

Anthea turner

Ah, so you like Flakes then

I am impressed by Caroline Goode and her commitment to hunting down the killers of Banaz Mahmod.

There are many admirable women out there.Mary Beard is wonderful. As are JKR, Michelle Obama and Jacinda Arden, Angela Merkel and Nicola Sturgeon.
I’m also in awe of Tracy Emin after reading this week’s interview in the Times.

I get a hit confused by the concept of a role model - do I have to want to be like them? Imitate them? Or just admire them?

Anyway - women I strongly admire for a whole host of different reasons.

JKR
Dianna Agron
Anne Hegarty
Malala Yousafzai
Agota Kristof
Anne Bronte

Nicola Sturgeon

I don't have one. I don't want to model myself on another person. I am me, confronting different obstacles from a different perspective with different opportunities and history.

I respect many women, but I don't consider any my role model. I think it's innate, I've never felt the need. And never felt I know enough about the real woman behind the achievements to make them a role model.

II try to think about what Althea or Ronica Vestrit would do - but they're fictional so I'm basically just trying to follow traits which I find respectable in a character.

Eva Longoria.
An ethnic minority, worked part-time alongside her studies (even as a child), has a STEM bachelors' degree and master's degree, she does an incredible amount of charity work and political activism. Not to mention, she proves that short women can also be beautiful and fierce.

Kate Bush
Josie Dew
Ellen McArthur
Lucy Irvine
Ffyona Campbell

Joni Mitchell
Tori Amos
Note..none of these are my role models, but women I admire...

Jacinda Ardern

Professor Devi Sridhar (one of the scientific experts advising the Scottish government)

Tsai Ing-wen (Taiwan President)

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Caitlin Moran
Jack Monroe

No role model for me either. I’m good with who I am. But I do admire lots of the names mentioned above.
Well, I guess my mom was somewhat of a role model. And I hope I am a role model of sorts for my daughters. But I want them to make there own way and just get an idea of what is possible for me.

I don't have 'a' role model, but there are so many awesome women out there who were ahead of their time.

I've liked the Facebook page 'A Mighty Girl' and it regularly drops into my feed information about strong women who have done amazing things (usually) without being recognised - from war time spies, to scientists, from civil rights activists to instigators of social change. Can't recommend it enough if you were looking for some role models in life.

I've also been given a book by Hilary and Chelsea Clinton book 'Gutsy women' which highlights a lot of strong women I suspect most of us have never heard of, or, more likely heard of only a tiny % of. Well worth a read.

I’m a big fan of Charlize Theron - she really commands respect and takes no shit from anyone.

Both my grandmas. If we’re talking famous women, I don’t know. All the female musicians I like have their issues and I can’t think of any female politicians.

@alltoomuchrightnow

Joni Mitchell Tori Amos Note..none of these are my role models, but women I admire...

You have taste.

thankyou!

oh I will say Jack Monroe too
and Waris Dirie

Stephanie Shirley
Wendy Hall
Mary Beard

And then various women in my family, my friends, my work.

Gina Rippon, too.

Yes I was going to say Steve Shirley as well. Wonder woman!