Nevertheless, she persisted
From technology to sport, film direction to politics, women are still battling to change a male-dominated world – and winning, just like Billie Jean King
From the makers of Little Miss
Sunshine and Slumdog Millionaire comes the story of one of the most pioneering sports people of all time – Billie Jean King ( played by Emma Stone), in Battle
Of The Sexes. In the summer of 1973, as the women’s movement was heating up, 29-year-old tennis star Billie Jean was grand slamming her way to the top. So when ex-men’s champion Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) trash talked her into a battle of the sexes, she took him on in front of an incredible 90 million viewers.
Here, we hear it for the women taking on men in their own male-dominated arenas. Who runs the world? Girls.
Angela Ahrendts, senior vp of Apple
Why excel in just one industry when you can conquer two? After Burberry’s value rose from $2billion to $7billion during her tenure as CEO, Angela was recruited to become Apple’s Senior Vice President of Retail and Online Stores in 2014.
Kathryn Bigelow, oscar-winning film director
As a writer/producer/director, Kathryn is true Hollywood royalty. She’s also a history maker: at the 82nd Academy Awards, she became the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar. This year the Californian followed up Zero Dark
Thirty with the extraordinary Detroit.
Alicia garza, opal tometi And patrisse cullors, founders of BLACK lives matter movement
Three women have come to the fore to build a movement to combat one of America’s most pressing social issues – systemic racism. Against the backdrop of often male violence and brutality, the three friends conceived the hashtag #Blacklivesmatter to campaign in the community and on the world stage.
Karren Brady, football executive|
She may be better known from The
Apprentice boardroom, but West Ham United’s Vice- Chairman has been dominating football’s executive suites for decades. The Conservative life peer’s rise was meteoric: she was appointed Birmingham City’s MD at just 23.