Inilah Daftar Top 100 Wanita Yang Paling Inspiratif Dari Seluruh Dunia

Berikut Nama 100 Wanita yang paling inspiratif dan paling layak untuk menjadi inspirasi bagi wanita-wanita lain di dunia

• Aung San Suu Kyi

  The Burmese pro-democracy leader who has inspired the world with her non-violent resistance to a brutal dictatorship

• Michelle Bachelet

  Former president and defence minister of Chile who is now head of UN Women

• Gro Harlem Brundtland

  A woman with a remarkable CV: former doctor, prime minister of Norway and director of the World Health Organisation

• Hillary Clinton

  The US Secretary of State has outlasted her critics to become more popular than ever

• Harriet Harman

  The woman who is deputy leader of the Labour party, shadow deputy prime minister and the first female solicitor general

• Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

  President of Liberia, responsible for significant debt relief and instigating the investigation of civil war crimes

• Christine Lagarde

  French finance minister – the first woman appointed to that role in a G8 country

• Angela Merkel

  The Chancellor of Germany who is arguably the most influential female politician in the world

• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  The former finance director of Nigeria who is now a managing director of the World Bank

• Dilma Rousseff

  The teenage socialist guerilla withstood imprisonment and torture and went on to become the first female president of Brazil

• Margaret Thatcher

  Like her or loathe her, Britain's first female prime minister made her way in a man's world and changed the way we think of women politicians

• Franny Armstrong

  Filmmaker behind The Age of Stupid, environmental activist and founder of the 10:10 campaign

• Helen Bamber

  Founder of Amnesty International and campaigner for human rights

• Camila Batmanghelidjh

  The founder of Kid's Company, which offers practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children

• Shami Chakrabarti

  Director of Liberty, barrister and former lawyer for the Home Office

• Margaret Chan

  Director of the World Health Organisation, battling international viruses, and championing improvements in all of our most pressing diseases

• Sampat Pal Devi

  Leader of the Gulabi Gang in northern India, an all-women vigilante force

• Shirin Ebadi

  Iran's first female judge, founder of the Human Rights Defenders Centre and the first Muslim woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• Aparajita Gogoi

  Coordinator of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood in India

• Lubna Hussein

  Sudanese writer and women's rights campaigner, who asked to go to trial after being arrested for wearing trousers

• Malalai Joya

  Afghan politician and human rights campaigner who has shown phenomenal courage

• Wangari Maathai

  The Kenyan environmental and political activist who won a Nobel Peace prize for her work with the Green Belt Movement

• Graca Machel

  Former Mozambican education minister and advocate for the rights of southern African women and children

• Somaly Mam

  Cambodian anti-sex trafficking campaigner and founder of AFESIP, rescuing women from brothels and supporting their recovery

• Fatema Mernissi

  Professor of sociology at Mohammed V University in Rabat

• Pragna Patel

  Founding member of Southall Black Sisters, a landmark organisation in the history of black and Asian feminism

• Lisa Robinson

  Civil servant who made a stand and stopped a train carriage of sexist men

• Nawal El Saadawi

  Egyptian doctor, psychiatrist, feminist, university lecturer and writer

• Zainab Salbi

  Iraqi American CEO and founder of Women for Women International

• Jasvinder Sanghera

  Director of Karma Nirvana, a charity helping victims of forced marriages and 'honour' violence

• Vandana Shiva

  Environmentalist and founder of Diverse Women for Diversity

• Marina Abramovic

  Yugoslavian Performance artist famed for her gruelling, intimate works that are legendary feats of endurance, self-exposure and risk

• Marin Alsop

  One of only a few female conductors and music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

• Kathryn Bigelow

  First woman to win the Oscar for best director in the 82 years of the Academy award's history

• Tacita Dean

  Turner nominated artist who is set to fill the Tate's Turbine Hall

• Zaha Hadid

  Iraqi architect who has designed buildings all over the world and last year won the Stirling prize

• Angelique Kidjo

  Africa's Grammy award-winning "premier diva", who is politically outspoken and runs an education foundation

• Lady Gaga

  Outlandish dresser, performer and politicised pop icon for the Twitter generation

• Madonna

  The musical queen of reinvention - and still in the spotlight in her 50s on her own terms

• Stella McCartney

  The designer who has carved out her own successful career on her own merit, not just her connections

• Mira Nair

  Film-maker behind The Namesake, Amelia and Monsoon Wedding, for which she became the first woman to win the Golden Lion at Cannes

• Paula Rego

  Slade School of Art Turner prize nominated artist

• Robyn

  Swedish electro-pop sensation who has topped the charts while keeping her clothes on

• Cindy Sherman

  American artist and photographer, famed for her self-portraits in disguise, subverting notions of identity and gender

• Patti Smith

  The pioneering punk musician, poet and political activist broke through the male punk movement without chasing fame or money

• Emma Thompson

  Oscar-winning actor and human rights campaigner, recently working to raise awareness of sex trafficking

• Rachel Whiteread

  British artist who filled the Tate Turbine hall with boxes and took on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth

• Xinran

  China's first agony aunt broadcaster, and author of the Good Women of China

• Cerrie Burnell

  TV presenter tackling prejudices of disability head on

• Rachel Maddow

  The only openly gay American to host a primetime news show

• Miriam O'Reilly

  Television presenter who was the first to win a claim of age discrimation against the BBC after being dropped from Countryfile

• Oprah Winfrey

  The talkshow host, actress and philanthropist is not satisfied with having conquered the US and is now taking on the whole world

• Victoria Wood

  Bafta-winning comedian and writer, finding humour in everyday women's live

• Maya Angelou

  Writer, academic and activist, who chronicled the African American experience in literature

• Margaret Atwood

  Novelist behind The Handmaid's Tale, a cautionary story of a world without feminism

• Judith Butler

  Superstar academic whose influential work Gender Trouble changed the way we conceptualise gender

• Carol Ann Duffy

  First tipped for the job 10 years earlier, she finally became the first female poet laureate in 2009

• Eve Ensler

  Playwright and activist, most famed for her taboo-busting play, The Vagina Monologues

• Susan Faludi

  Social historian, political analyst, and fact checker extraordinaire, who has challenged the mainstream consensus about women's status

• Germaine Greer

  Academic and feminist commentator who bulldozed her way into women's minds

• Shere Hite

  Feminist sex researcher who debunked the myth that most women were able to have orgasms through intercourse alone
  

• Lynda La Plante

  Screenwriter responsible for Prime Suspect, a brilliant vision of a woman in a man's workplace

• Doris Lessing

  Novelist celebrated as writing a pioneering work of female emancipation, then spent half a century trying to shake off the status of 'feminist icon'

• Onora O'Neill

  Cambridge philosopher and crossbench peer who addresses issues including freedom of speech and stem-cell research

• JK Rowling

  Author of the Harry Potter series, inspiring young readers and improving literacy levels in the process

• Arundhati Roy

  Booker prize-winning author and one of India's most important polemicists

• Marjane Satrapi

  Graphic novelist behind Persepolis, an autobiographical account of an Iranian youth

• Jessica Valenti

  Pioneering blogger whose online activism dragged feminism into the 21st century

• Alice Walker

  Lifelong political and social activist whose novel The Color Purple won the Pulitzer prize

• Mary Warnock

  Philosopher and writer, who has shaped government policies and is an outspoken supporter of legalised euthanasia

• Martha Lane Fox

  Entrepreneur who founded lastminute.com and is leading the government's campaign to get people online

• Juliana Rotich

  A prolific blogger who founded Ushahidi.com as a means to uncover violence and crisis areas around the world

• Rebecca Adlington

  Double Olympic gold swimmer aiming to increase her tally in 2012

• Arlene Blum

  Mountaineer Arlene Blum was the first American woman to attempt Mount Everest

• Karren Brady

  The vice-chairman of West Ham United football club who became a champion of working women on The Apprentice

• Eileen Collins

  US astronaut who was the first female pilot of a space shuttle and the first female shuttle commander

• Cathy Freeman

  The first Aboriginal athlete to win an Olympic medal

• Tanni Grey-Thompson

  Britain's greatest Paralympian, changed the perception of Paralympic sport for ever

• Kelly Holmes

  The first British Olympian to win a double gold

• Ellen MacArthur

  Sailor who completed solo circumnavigation race, the Vendée Globe, then broke the non-stop solo world record

• Martina Navratilova

  One of the all-time greats of women's tennis and gay-rights campaigner

• Hope Powell

  England women's football manager who, this year, takes the team to the World Cup for the second time

• Caster Semenya

  Young athlete who overcame global gender taunts to win world championship

• Venus Williams

  First black woman tennis player to be world number one in the modern era

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• Hawa Abdi

  One of Somalia's first female gynaecologists, Hawa Abdi now uses her own money to run a small hospital

• Jocelyn Bell Burnell

  Astrophysicist who discovered the first pulsar and was the first female president of the Institute of Physics

• Athene Donald

  An expert in the structure of "soft" matter, Donald researches unconventional areas for a physicist – such as revolutionary treatments for Alzheimer's

• Fabiola Gianotti

  Physicist leading the team working on the Large Hadron Collider at Cern

• Jane Goodall

  Primatologist and environmental campaigner, who has conducted groundbreaking work on chimpanzees and shortened the gap between our species

• Molly Stevens

  Professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine, Imperial College London

• Susan Wicklund

  Abortion provider Susan Wicklund has been forced to carry a gun and wear a bullet-proof vest to protect herself from protesters at her clinic in Montana

• Louise Arbour

  Human rights lawyer taking to task leaders from Kyrgyzstan to Sudan over abuses of power

• Brenda Hale

  The first woman and youngest judge to become a law lord, Hale is currently the only female justice of the UK supreme court

• Helena Kennedy

  Human rights lawyer who originally worked on sex-discrimination cases before setting up Doughty Street chambers

• Gareth Peirce

  Lawyer whose battles against miscarriages of justice have changed legal history

• Jayshree Satpute

  Human rights advocate working to help poor women in India at risk of dying in childbirth

• Sonia Sotomayor

  Supreme court judge has used her experience of the real world in her rulings

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• Carol Bartz

  The first female CEO of a major software company, Yahoo

• Andrea Jung

  11 years as chief executive of Avon make Jung the longest serving female head of a Fortune 500 company

• Indra Nooyi

  PepsiCo's boss is keen to help women – and other minorities – up the business ladder

Source: Guardian.co.UK