influential women
Women with impact
Women who have shaped events, thought, or culture through their actions, ideas, or positions.
The phrase often appears in lists celebrating female achievement: a conference honoring influential women in technology, the most influential women of the twentieth century.
Sometimes used pointedly to highlight contributions historically overlooked or attributed to men.
- first ladyPreeminent woman somewhere
- trailblazerFirst to forge ahead
- breaking barriersOvercoming entrenched obstacles
- CleopatraEgypt's last pharaoh
- equalitySame status for all
Hillary Clinton · Lady Bird Johnson · Angela Merkel · Barbara McClintock · Harriet Tubman · civil rights · Frida Kahlo · Marie Curie · Jane Goodall · Oprah Winfrey · Toni Morrison · leading lady · Sojourner Truth · Gloria Steinem · Angela Davis · Malala Yousafzai · role model · Margaret Thatcher
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Susan B. Anthony
- women's historyherstory, suffrage movement, heroines, suffragettes, Susan B. Anthony
- notable peoplepoliticians, artists, leaders, writers, scientists
- women's history medalscommemorative coins, achievement awards
- biographiesbiography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, memoir
- notable figurespolitical leaders, historical figures, dignitary, luminary, presidents