Game Changers

Charlette N’Guessan has won the Royal Academy of Engineering’s prestigious 2020 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation – the first time for a woman.

Nike has released an ad reshaping the story of two of tennis’ greatest ever player Serena and Venus Williams have in total, won 122 titles and 30 majors.

In France, 122 have been killed since August 2019. A year on, a group of activists known “les colleuses” have returned to erect a memorial to the murders.

Viridiana Alvarez Chavez completed the fastest ascent to the top the three highest mountains with supplementary oxygen (female) in one year and 364 days.

Nakkiah Lui is leading a new generation of new voices as she teams up with Allen and Unwin to curate a list of authors for a new imprint, called JOAN.

One of Australia’s best cricketers has been inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame, becoming the fifth Australian woman and the 27th Australian.

Ten positions of leadership in Saudi’s mosques have been appointed to women across multiple Holy Sites in Mecca and Medina.

Kamala Harris is the first woman of colour to be named as a vice presidential running mate; Joe Biden’s pick for the 2020 Presidental Election.

For the first time in six years, no women of colour CEOs are on this year’s Global 500 list, and only 13 women made made the cut.

Teela May Reid has been awarded this year’s Daisy Utemorrah Prize at the WA Premier’s Book Awards for her unpublished manuscript “Our Matriarchs Matter.”

“Every generation needs to be told why Black Lives Matter. Here we are again,” says Marcia Langton in her Thea Astley Address at the Byron Writers Festival.

Gender stereotypes embedded in language can have a significant effect on the way women are treated in STEM industries, according to a new study from the US.