Annie Lennox Musician and AIDS Activist Since 2005, pop singer Annie Lennox has devoted the majority of her time to her SING campaign, raising awareness and money to combat HIV/AIDS. She shares the experiences that have inspired her, from working with [...]
Social Entrepreneur Stephanie Shirley was born in 1933 as Vera Buchthal in Dortmund, Germany. Her Jewish father was a judge but lost his post to the Nazi regime. In 1939 Shirley (aged five) together with her nine-year-old sister, was sent [...]
Pam Warhurst: Eating our landscapes With energy and humour, Pam Warhurst tells the story of how she and a growing team of volunteers came together to turn plots of unused land into communal vegetable gardens, and to change the narrative of [...]
"My job is giving people hope" • This video interview is part of the Human – the movie project Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in 1934 in London. Jane had always been passionate about animals and Africa, which brought her to the farm of [...]
Alla Wolf Tasker has enough national and international awards to fill virtually every wall of her house on the lake. Recent accolades include a listing in Tatler’s Top 100 hotels in the world, listing in The Australian’s Hottest 50 Restaurants and [...]
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa ONZ DBE AC, has had a highly successful international opera career since 1968. Born in Gisborne, New Zealand in 1944, the Māori soprano is acclaimed as one of the most beloved sopranos in the world. She possesses [...]
Francine Christophe is a French writer and poetess born in 1933. She was deported with her mother to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. Released in 1945, she continues to share her experience and memories and regularly speaks to youth in schools [...]
A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. The "Problem That Has No Name" was described [...]
Dame Elisabeth Murdoch became a widely respected and much-loved public figure through her lifelong commitment to philanthropy and charity work. Famous as the wife of pioneering Australian journalist Sir Keith Murdoch and mother of international media baron Rupert Murdoch, her own [...]
Marie Skłodowska Curie was born on 7 November in 1867 in Poland (later naturalised French). The physicist and chemist pioneered the research on radioactivity together with her husband Pierre Curie. Her achievements included a theory of radioactivity (a term that she coined), techniques [...]
Corazón Aquino: Political Pioneer Corazón Aquino was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, the first woman to hold that office, and the first female president in Asia. Regarded as the "Icon of Philippine Democracy", Aquino [...]
Jill Bolte Taylor: An extraordinary journey One morning, a blood vessel in Jill Bolte Taylor's brain exploded. As a brain scientist, she realised she had a ringside seat to her own stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one [...]
Not that many people know about Helena Rubinstein's Australian connections. Chaya Rubinstein was born in Kraców, Poland in 1870, the eldest of eight daughters of Horace Rubinstein, an egg merchant and his wife Augusta. When her father suggested marriage to a wealthy [...]
Mary Somerville: Pioneer Scientist Mary Fairfax Somerville was born on 27 December 1780, the daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir William George Fairfax (scion of a distinguished family of Fairfaxes), and was related to several prominent Scottish houses through her mother. She was informally taught [...]
British born Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE, is considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees. She is best known for her 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She is the founder [...]
Janet Yellen: First woman Chair of US Federal Reserve Janet Yellen became the new chair of the US Federal Reserve on 31 January 2014. Yellen, 67, is the first woman to head the US Federal Reserve in its 100 year history, [...]
Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the "end of men"? Probably not – but they point toward an important [...]
