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We witnessed women lead where others have failed. Women in leadership must no longer be deemed an optional second, but a fundamental priority. As the current commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency KDCA — and having previously served as its first female chief — she is known for her transparency and the calm she brings to her daily briefings on the pandemic.

I will make the utmost effort to help the world become safer by strengthening the capabilities against disease. Fang Fang, whose real name is Wang Fang, is an award-winning Chinese author who has produced more than works.

This year, she began documenting events in Wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged. Her diary provided millions in China with a rare glimpse into the city, and she wrote about everything from the challenges of daily life to the physiological impact of forced isolation. As the diary attracted more international recognition, with a translation into English, an online backlash against her reporting of events accelerated.

Many in China were angered, and even branded her a traitor. Somaya and her team are planning to show their design to the Ministry of Public Health. If the prototype is approved, it could be used in remote hospitals. We have to make sure every kid has the same access to education, and the tools to make their dream come true.

She is now using her role to help Irish Travellers and other marginalised communities. Her ambition is to introduce hate-crime legislation in the Republic of Ireland.

When we stand together, our flames can set the world on fire. She currently stars in the hit Netflix series Grace and Frankie. Humanity faces an existential crisis. This is a collective solution. Women understand this. Women understand that we are all interdependent. They bear the brunt of the climate crisis and are the ones to lead us into the solutions. Kiran Gandhi, who performs as Madame Gandhi, is a singer and musician, artist and activist whose mission is to elevate and celebrate gender liberation.

She previously ran the London Marathon while "free bleeding", to tackle the stigma around menstruation. We have the power to redesign systems and make them work for us. Gardner led the team that built the indispensable Covid pandemic tracker that has become the authoritative source of Covid case data. It is used by governments, infectious-disease researchers and media outlets around the world.

Iman manages a group of 10 women who set up a solar microgrid, offering clean and low-impact energy, just 20 miles from the front line of the devastating Yemeni civil war. The microgrid is one of three established by the United Nations Development Programme in off-grid areas of Yemen — and the only one run entirely by women. Since then, however, they have won the respect of their community — while also earning a sustainable income for themselves and developing new professional skills.

They must strive with confidence and challenge all the difficulties they face in their lives to achieve those dreams. The moment Chinese scientists published genetic details of the new coronavirus, Sarah and her team in Oxford set to work to create a Covid vaccine.

A scientist trained in microbiology, biochemistry, molecular virology and vaccinology, Sarah has been working to develop vaccines against emerging diseases since Mama Maggie Gobran has devoted her life to transforming those of marginalised children in Egypt.

Abandoning a life of affluence and a distinguished academic career, she has dedicated all her energy and resources to observing children, washing their feet, and looking into their eyes and telling them that they matter.

Since , Mama Maggie and her team have had a holistic approach that has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, providing psychological wellness, education, healthcare and, above all, dignity. Rebeca Gyumi is the founder and executive director at the Msichana Initiative, a local NGO working to advance girls' rights. She is an advocate for gender equality, and has vast experience working on youth engagement and building women's movements,and providing advocacy at national and grassroots levels.

In , the Msichana Initiative won a landmark ruling at the Court of Appeal in Tanzania, which banned child marriages by raising the minimum age to Let's recommit to keep fighting, to continue with the journey; and to own our voices and the contribution we bring, until the gender-equality agenda is fulfilled. Deta worked nights at Royal Mail for 22 years. She has won darts titles — the second-highest tally in the whole game, beaten only by Phil Taylor.

She has appeared in finals, more than anyone else in darts history. Deta arrived in England in and is the current captain of England Darts. She is an ambassador to the charity Heart of Darts, and England's youth darts, and sits on the board of the World Darts Federation as its athletes representative. She has been placed at number one in the world rankings 11 times, and is the second-most capped player on the England ladies' team.

Age, sexuality and race are no reasons not to succeed. You are only here once — make the most of it. After relocating to Turkey in , Hendan founded Ayhan Education, an organisation devoted to fostering and teaching the Uighur language in the diaspora.

She currently lives in Istanbul. Her debut novel, Kheyr-khosh, quyash Farewell to the Sun , is the first extended work of fiction to focus on the detention camps in the Uighur region.

It is education that can make this hope become reality. Following the announcement of the film's impending release, it has faced state censorship in Nigeria where homosexuality remains an extremely contentious issue. After the male master brewer at her family brewery retired, Miho decided to train and become one of the few female sake master brewers in Japan.

Currently, about 20 of the country's sake breweries are run by women. If you treat your chosen profession with respect and sincerity, you will be on your way to achieving your goals. Isaivani is a distinctive gaana singer in India. Gaana music emerged from the working class neighbourhoods of North Chennai formerly Madras in Tamil Nadu. Isaivani has spent years singing and performing in this male-dominated space.

To perform on the same stage as other popular male singers can be considered an achievement by itself. Isaivani has successfully broken an age-old tradition, which has led other young female gaana singers to come forward and express themselves. This process will be constant for generations to come. Manasi, an Indian para-athlete, is the current para-badminton world champion. Manasi is also an engineer and a change-maker.

She aspires to drive a shift in how disability and para-sports are perceived in India. She was recently listed as a "Next Generation Leader" by Time magazine and appeared on the cover of its Asia edition as an advocate for the rights of disabled people in India.

Give yourself some time off every day. Nadine has worked with young refugees in mitigating post-conflict trauma. Despite that, systemic structures seem to be designed against us. The struggle to redesign them, so that women can be fuller expressions of themselves, must continue. She has also built libraries for children in the Zambian capital, Lusaka. She chaired the National Arts Council of Zambia from until She has also served as patron for a number of organisations featuring dance, writing, music and culture.

Dr Jemimah Kariuki is deeply passionate about preventive medicine, especially in maternal and child health. She is the founder of the Peace Club, initiated in response to post-election violence in , and the Public Health Club which is instrumental in running cervical-cancer prevention drives. As an obstetrics and gynaecology student, she noticed a sharp decline in maternal admissions, but a rise in complications, during the Covid pandemic — especially during curfew.

Realising that access to health care was delayed by limited transport options, she came up with a solution - licensed vehicles, taking women from their homes to the hospital. This led to Wheels for Life - a free ambulance service. Nonetheless, that thought nagging you each day may be your calling: do not be afraid to respond. You may be the answer to someone else's need. Over the past year, high femicide rates and parliamentary debates over whether to repeal the Istanbul Convention a legal framework designed to protect victims of domestic violence have drawn widespread criticism in Turkey.

The pandemic, which has shed light on the inequalities that women experience, shows there is no other way than these women pushing for change. Jackie Kay is a Scottish poet, playwright and novelist. Her memoir, Red Dust Road, which details her search for her biological parents, has been described by the author as a "love letter" to her white adoptive parents.

In she was named the Scots Makar — the national poet of Scotland. She is chancellor of the University of Salford. She has won several prizes for her work, and in was made a CBE for services to literature. The protests the world over this year have filled me with a strange optimism for our future. Salsabila is a 17 year-old student from Jakarta, Indonesia. Every Friday she leads a school strike against deforestation in front of the office of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry.

At the age of 15, she co-initiated a youth-led movement, Jaga Rimba. As well as forest preservation, the organisation fights for the rights of the indigenous community members who are losing their homes in the Kinipan forest, one of the last surviving rainforests in Kalimantan.

It is time for us to gather in solidarity, and lead a green and just recovery. Mahira Khan is no ordinary actress — she is outspoken against sexual violence, refuses to endorse skin-lightening creams and supports the fight against racism.

She wants to tackle social issues in her native Pakistan by changing the narrative in films and on TV. Mahira is a national goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, raising awareness of the plight of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Mahira is also a devoted mother to her year-old son.

Angelique also advocates on behalf of children as a Unicef ambassador, and through her own charitable foundation, Batonga, which supports the education of young girls in Africa.

Let's carry on being each other's keeper. This solidarity should cross social classes, ethnicity and sexual orientation. As the co-founder and director of Think Playgrounds, she has been working with partners and communities in the country to create over public playgrounds made from recycled materials.

She is currently working on therapy playgrounds for the Vietnam National Children's Hospital in Hanoi, and on the first low-carbon playground in the city.

It is about learning, with an intrinsic motivation: what do you need to do, what do you enjoy doing? Passionate, constant learning is what helps us overcome difficulties and be optimistic. As a plant virologist, Dr Safaa Kumari looks for solutions to epidemics that destroy crops. After discovering seeds that could safeguard food security in Syria, she risked her life to rescue them from Aleppo.

She has spent years discovering virus-resistant plant varieties, including a faba bean that is resistant to the faba necrotic yellow virus FBNYV. Within a team tasked with overcoming such challenges, it is about ability — not gender. Women must believe that their contribution is equal to that of any man. She is based in South Africa, where she collaborates with social-justice organisations, movements and networks around the world, providing the support needed to strengthen their approaches to human rights-advocacy.

She is working with others towards a single goal of making sure that a Covid vaccine will be sustainably priced, available to all and free at the point of delivery. The daughter of a teacher, she served as senator for the Alianza Verde Green Alliance party between and She led the implementation of a popular consultation on anti-corruption that garnered The social revolution that began in the last century will not halt.

We will see changes clearly reflected throughout our public and private lives. Josina Z Machel is a long-standing defender of human rights, born into a legacy of activism. A a survivor of domestic violence, she is turning her personal trauma into purpose through the Kuhluka Movement. The organisation helps to accelerate social change with regard to gender-based violence, and to create safe havens for survivors of violence in communities across southern Africa.

Finland has been hailed for its handling of Covid, with one of the lowest infection rates in Europe, as of November A feminist activist, journalist and humanitarian, Hayat is co-founder of Fe-Male, a pioneer feminist collective in Lebanon. She continues to spread her message through various platforms by organising nationwide marches, and rallying the masses to challenge corrupt, patriarchal regimes and demand change.

Through solidarity, sisterhood and love, we will continue the fight, and amplify our voices and demands for a just and gender-equal future. Bulelwa Mkutukana is better known by her stage name Zahara. She came from humble beginnings in South Africa, and found her love of singing in the school choir. The singer-songwriter has been showered with awards and is enjoying a successful career in the music industry — but she has also used her platform to speak out about violence against women in South Africa, something she revealed has happened to her.

Lucy Monaghan waived her right to anonymity, to talk about how she was treated by police and prosecutors in Northern Ireland after reporting her alleged rape in Lucy challenged the authorities in court over failures in their investigations, and as a result changes were made to how victims of sexual attacks are treated.

Lucy now supports rape survivors, and in participated in the Judge Gillen review, which made more than recommendations for changes to the law. Douce Namwezi N'Ibamba is a multimedia journalist and the founder of Uwezo Afrika Initiative, a non-profit venture promoting women's empowerment through journalism, job training and social entrepreneurship. She fights taboos around menstruation by making sexual education and hygiene kits available to students and women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

She campaigns internationally to highlight the impacts of climate change already occurring in Africa. Mamitu is now an internationally certified fistula surgeon, after being treated for fistula an injury which can occur in childbirth herself. Meena has worked with other women in the Sundarbans delta to build a brick road to make their village more accessible. Fabiola is a particle physicist and became director general of Cern, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Julia was Australia's first female prime minister and now promotes education and leadership for women and girls.

Elena campaigns against forced sterilisation and works to return institutionalised children to their birth families. Randi challenged critics of equal pay for women in ice hockey, using data that proved they were as popular on social media as the men.

She also scored the first goal for the United Korea Olympic team at the Games. Janet is a working mother of five children and an altruistic surrogate who is pregnant with her second surrogate baby. Jessica is a consecrated virgin - vowing perpetual virginity as a bride of Christ - who teaches high-school theology classes and serves as a vocational adviser. Thando is a diversity and inclusion advocate. Cast in the Pirelli calendar , she is the first person of colour in South Africa to have featured in the publication.

Hindou is an indigenous woman of Chad, advocating for the protection of the environment and for the rights of indigenous peoples on an international scale. Reyhan is a young entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Rainergy, a company that harvests energy from rainwater.

Liz is a swimmer who won Gold at the Paralympic Games in Beijing, and has set up a recruitment agency which aims to close the disability employment gap. Lao led the Laos women's national rugby team to historic international victories, and is the first Hmong woman to earn her rugby coach licence.

Joey works as a model and presenter across Asia, and she and her partner Angelina Mead King appeared in a documentary which chronicled the couple's journey when Angelina came out as transgender. Krishna was elected to the Pakistan Senate after campaigning for women's rights, having previously been forced into bonded labour for three years. Marie has created a platform for women to share stories of street harassment, after a video of her calling out her harasser went viral on social media.

Veasna was the first woman to study law at Cambodia's Royal University of Law and Economics, and lived in a basement space beneath the college due to a lack of female dorms. Ana was appointed head of a unit investigating cases of femicide in and earlier this year was named El Salvador's women and femicide special prosecutor co-ordinator.

Maria is a political leader who has campaigned to safeguard democratic processes in Venezuela. Nanaia has served in the New Zealand parliament for 22 years and was the first female parliamentarian to wear a Maori face tattoo. Sakdiyah is Indonesia's first female Muslim stand-up and uses comedy as a way to challenge Islamic extremism and violence against women.

Lisa is a Northern Irish playwright and the writer and creator of Derry Girls, Channel 4's most-watched comedy since Kirsty set up 4Louis, a charity that provides memory boxes for bereaved parents, after her own son Louis was stillborn.

Becki has a disability and researches inequalities experienced by disabled domestic abuse survivors, and advises refuge services on being more inclusive. Ruth is a female welder who lives in an urban slum community and aspires to be a role model for young women in the construction industry. Larisa is an accordion music teacher and became a model for the first time at the age of Yanar runs a network of shelters to help survivors of abuse in Iraq and has helped more than women leave violent situations.

Joseline works in communities to help educate girls and young women about sex and relationships, and strives to end forced marriages. Nujeen fled the war in Syria, crossing thousands of miles in her wheelchair, and now campaigns on behalf of refugees with disabilities. Dima is an artist, clown and visual storyteller, who collects and reflects tales from Syria.

Helena has performed sight-restoring surgeries upon 35, Namibians, free of charge - many of her patients now call her "Namibia's miracle doctor". Kelly serves as the minister for jobs and industrial relations, and minister for women in the Australian parliament, and is the first female Australian cabinet minister to give birth whilst serving in office.

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