Every year, women appear on the world stage who have an impact on the whole world. They constantly appear on television screens, and well-known magazines write about them. Women become famous as a result of their behavior, appearance or work. Sometimes they inspire in their words and actions to serious changes in the world. It is girls who become the cause of cultural change. You can distinguish 10 ordinary women who shook society in 2019.
Greta Tunberg
She is known as a 16-year-old climate change activist. Born in Sweden, she is also the youngest person ever selected by Time Magazine as the Person of the Year.
Last year, she led the largest ever strike on climate change and even spoke at the UN Climate Summit in New York, where she delivered a passionate speech to world leaders. The video spread across different countries, so the girl got a lot of followers and fans. She continues her activities, and also hopes that world leaders will listen to her wishes and requirements.
Sanna marin
She is the youngest acting Prime Minister in the world, and she took this post at 34. Sanna leads the Finnish ruling coalition of five parties. She was born in a family of same-sex parents, and also the only one in the family who went to university, where she graduated.
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Yumi Ishikawa
This Japanese actress and freelance writer launched a viral movement against the need for women to wear high heels at work. Such a campaign has made society change significantly. Many companies deliberately made changes to the rules so as not to force their employees to wear high-heeled shoes.
But there is still a culture of looking at women as flowers in the office, not as employees. Yumi wants the business owners to see the work force and potential in the girls, and not just a beautiful cover. An activist of gender equality became known after the start of the viral movement throughout the world.
Christina Koch and Jessica Meir
On October 18, NASA conducted its first female spacewalk with astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who went down in history. It was Koch’s fourth spacewalk and first for Meir. Koch wants by the end of 2020 to set a record for the length of the period spent by an American woman in space.
Duty Chang
She is known as the fastest female sprinter from India. In 2019, the girl admitted that she is in a same-sex relationship. She faced a negative reaction from the public, but continued to seek an open conversation with her compatriots. She believes that in such a conservative country like India, it is high time to introduce tolerance towards sexual minorities.
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Katie Bowman
Katie is a 30-year-old computer scientist, and she became known throughout the world in 2019. She led the development of an algorithm capable of photographing black holes. The woman used her own data to create the first photograph of a black hole. In June 2019, she took a job at the California Institute of Technology as an assistant professor.
Sinead Burke
A woman is only 1.2 meters tall, as she suffers from achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism. She is considered the first girl who raised the question regarding the need to introduce fashion not only for thin models, but also for non-standard women. She became a representative of people with disabilities in the fashion world.
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Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand was hit by the deadliest in the history of mass shooting in 2019 when the shooter opened fire at two mosques in Christchurch. After this terrible tragedy, 39-year-old Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern showed her compassion. She announced a change in the law on gun ownership. This has led to significant adjustments to the law, so now in New Zealand only people who have gone through many checks and medical examinations will be able to acquire weapons.
Chanel Miller
She survived sexual abuse, after which she wrote memoirs. She acted as a victim in a rape case at Stanford. In her book, Chanel talks about the night when Brock Turner raped her behind a dumpster. She told about the injury and healing.
Zozibini Tunci
Zosibini became the first black Miss South Africa to wear the Miss Universe crown. A defender of natural beauty, she decided to show off her natural hair during the contest, although she was forced to wear a wig. Zozibini is not the only woman of color who brought home the title of the competition this year, but she became famous for her naturalness and unusual appearance.
