To ask you for your female role models and what you learnt from them?

[Purplefoxes]

Are there any particular women you look up to in business or in the media for example who have inspired you career wise or life in general?

What was it about then that inspired you and why?

Background to this (before anyone accuses me of being a journo!) is I am looking to take a step up in my career but I realised I don't really have any female role models to aspire to (male dominated work sector!). I've always struggled with being assertive as a woman and having a role model might help me. I'd also like to be a role model myself for other women (one day!). I'm therefore very interested to hear yours and why you think they make a good role model. Posting here for traffic. Thank you in advance 😃

Yes in the same vein I'll add Joan of Arc and Elizabeth 1st. Both inspirational leaders of their time.

Hurrah for the scientists! And she did simultaneously pave the way for other women in this sector and advance the field of biochemistry. And to think that many so called scientists from bygone times thought women inferior due to our brain size and that we should focus on our 'reproductive gifts' and leave education, power, politics, science and any other business of the world to men! She (and others!) certainly proved them wrong, and I bet she didn't have the same opportunities that many men did of her era.

I used to work with a woman who had made it to the very top. She was genuinely nice as a person and technically competent. You would not believe how rare combination that is in my line of work...

That woman is a role model for me, because unlike countless other women I've worked with, she's been hugely successful without stepping on other people. I felt smarter working with her, and absorbing technical knowledge from being around her. On a non-work related point, she's also gorgeous - if she wasn't such a nice person, I'd probably hate for it.

I always admired Susan Sarandons activism and Angelina Jolie. Also a big fan of JK Rowling and Greta Thunberg. Rosa Parks. Simone de Beauvoir. Billie Eilish. Magdalen Berns.

Shonda Rhimes

Great thread @Purplefoxes. I've been thinking about other women I admire.

I love Greta Thunberg. She is awesome. Loud, when lots of people would like her to STFU.

Erin Pizzy. Women's refuges made a huge difference to Women's rights.

@Mushroo that's actually pretty awesome advice I think a lot of us could take on board.