We talk a lot about financial investing. But many times women invest their talent, time, and even lives to make a difference in the world and in their communities. Today, we wanted to share just a few stories about women setting trends in business and elsewhere, investing financially, breaking records, revealing other women’s pioneering achievements, and changing the world.
‘Superwoman’: Incredible Scenes As Female Star Breaks Usain Bolt World Record, from Yahoo Sport—“Overall, (Olympic sprinter Allyson) Felix now has an incredible 26 medals, a dazzling haul that also includes six Olympic golds. Felix, competing in her ninth straight world championships, has accumulated more World Championship and Olympic honours than any other track and field athlete in history.
‘So special, to have my daughter here watching means the world to me,’ Felix said afterwards.”
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Crowned the Fastest Woman in the World, from CNN—“Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce further staked her claim as one of the greatest female sprinters of all time by storming to victory in the women’s 100 meters final at the World Championships in Doha. […] ‘My secret is just staying humble and just know who you are as a person and athlete and just continue to work hard.’”
Asia’s Power Businesswomen 2019: Meet 25 Outstanding Leaders on the Rise in Asia, from Forbes—“Selected for their achievements and track records of success, the women on this list represent the diversity within Asia’s business landscape by highlighting entrepreneurs,
investors, high level executives as well as those transforming their family enterprises. Regardless of their backgrounds, these women are defying stereotypes and breaking down barriers across industries.”
Women Scientists Were Written Out of History. It’s Margaret Rossiter’s Lifelong Mission to Fix That, from Smithsonian.com—“The history of women in science would become Rossiter’s lifework, a topic she almost single-handedly made relevant. Her study, Women Scientists in America, which reflected more than a decade of toil in the archives and thousands of miles of dogged travel, broke new ground and brought hundreds of buried and forgotten contributions to light. The subtitle—Struggles and Strategies to 1940—announced its deeper project: an investigation into the systematic way that the field of science deterred women, and a chronicling of the ingenious methods that enterprising women nonetheless found to pursue the knowledge of nature. She would go on to document the stunted, slow, but intrepid progress of women in science in two subsequent volumes, following the field into the 21st century.”
Greta Thunberg and Gen Z’s Quest to Save the World, from Refinery29—“[Greta Thunberg’s and Emma González’s] resistance to societal pressures to calm down about the fact that so much is so wrong with the world — pressures which disproportionately affect girls, who are often taught to be well-behaved and polite in public — is part of what’s made them both so inspiring to many. You can see it in the huge numbers of young people who heard their calls, marching for gun reform in the wake of the Florida tragedy and then at the Global Climate Strike last Friday, protesting the response to the looming environmental crisis.”
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