who are PROPER female role models

[Porcupine]

for your dds? not farking JOran please

Elizabeth I, Violette Szabo (British agent, the film Carve Her Name with Pride was made about her life), Ang Sang Sui thingy (sorry can never get spelling right, utterly heroic woman), Helen Bamber, the woman who founded the Medical Foundation for The Victims of Torture, loads of writers, eg Rebecca West, Julie Christie and Helen Mirren are interesting women who are still very vivid in their 60s, Gareth Pierce and Helena Kennedy.

Rosa Parks

silly me not knowing the ins and out of american history

LOL olive I loved that on dead ringers!
I admire Sandi Toksvig for her wit.
Cherie Blair is a good role model.
She has a career and a family.

its a major in adn out htough
god olive did you nto do historiy at shcool/

Northerner - shall we start another thread?

we did the spinning jenny or something

Rosa Parks is really famous though! Huge figure in the civil rights movement, one of the key political movements of the 20th century.

Not just American history

well excuse me!

I chose Ellen M but agree she does appear quite boring. I think that is the problem, all of these women have made great achievements, overcome difficulty, suceeded in their field and so on, but do any of them really capture the imagination of a young female today? Im not sure they do.

when you compare them with the media driven images and supposed exciting lifestyles of popstars, film stars etc or the instant fame of reality tv stars some of these women do seem quite dull.

When I was young I wanted to be in Bananarama not an MP.

Helen Keller. A major advocate for the proper education of Deaf Blind people.

Rosalind Frankin, the 'real' scientist behind the discovery of the structure of DNA and TMV, sadly died before she gained recognition.

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Marie Curie

Changing all of genetics not enough for you?

Why should the likes of Ellen Macarther not be boring.
She has made a fantastic achievement.
Maybe sh should have whippeed her tits out on the finishing line to make herslef more 'interesting'.

I think all sport is boring tbh. But that's just my thing.

I thought you'd gone Olive.

Gah, if I had a better connection speed I could really get stuck into this topic.

By the time I've typed something out, then tapped my fingers while it goes through, everything has moved on.

What's boring about a strong, intelligent, independant, strong-minded, courageous young woman????????

Several of these have been mentioned already

Elizabeth Butler-Sloss
Bel Mooney (co-founded SANDS amongst other achievements)
Shami Chakrabarti
Jo Brand
Joanna McGregor
Segolene Royal
Jenny Tonge
Sheila McKechnie
Mary Warnock

and going back in time

Rosa Parks
Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst
Milicent Fawcett
Violette Szabo
Elizabeth Fry
Gladys Aylward
Freya Stark
Mary Wollstonecraft
Julian of Norwich
Christine de Pisan
Boudicca
Jane Austen
Florence Nightingale
Mary Seacole
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Vera Brittain
Jennie Lee

Isn't it funnt but if a woman does something incredible she is slated for beoing boring, single minded. If a man sails around the world he is a hero, strong and assertive.

sailign is dull

anyone who sails round the world is mad imo

or avoiding the ironing

ROFL