We celebrate the legacy of the women who came before us, each in their own manner, who led the push for change in Women’s History.

From suffragist Susan B. Anthony to civil rights fighter Rosa Parks, they shaped not just the lives of women who followed after them, but the globe as a whole. Today, many remarkable women are following up were these fearless ladies left off, fighting relentlessly for the greater good and making their own history.

Here are the top 10 inspirational women in the world.

Serena Williams

Serena Williams

Serena Williams, a tennis legend, captivated the hearts of sports fans all over the world with her athletic talent and passion for the game at a young age. But, as we’ve watched her mature in front of our eyes, Williams has evolved into much more than inspiration on the court.

She, like many of her contemporaries on this list, is outspoken about the importance of gender and racial equality. She doesn’t simply speak the talk; she walks the walk as well. She invested $3 million in Mahmee, a Black-owned firm aiming at improving prenatal and postpartum care for new moms and newborns, through her own Serena Ventures, a subject important to her heart after Williams faced a significant health crisis after giving birth to her daughter in 2017.

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Mel Robbins

Mel Robbins

Mel Robbins gives a distinct female viewpoint to her incisive and inspiring presentations in a world full of male keynote speakers. She offers a wealth of beneficial knowledge that benefits entrepreneurs and everyone in need of a boost.

The 5-Second Rule by Tony Robbins is a national best-seller. Robbins has the proper mix of confidence and sensitivity, and he is able to discuss sensitive issues that are typically avoided. Robbins urges women to keep pushing forward by taking the initial move to start a dialogue and encouraging others to join and be their best.

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Kathrin Jansen

Kathrin Jansen

Jansen was entrusted with creating and testing a viable COVID-19 vaccine in less than a year as Pfizer’s head of vaccine research and development. Jansen led a team of 650 scientists to produce the first effective coronavirus vaccine during the epidemic.

Getting to this stage, however, requires significant risks, including the use of experimental mRNA technology. Jansen has never shied away from taking chances, which has frequently resulted in big scientific discoveries, such as the world’s two best-selling vaccines against human papillomavirus and pneumococcus. Her fearless leadership has transformed science and saved many lives.

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Maria Eitel

Maria Eitel

Maria Eitel began her career working for the White House and Microsoft before becoming Nike’s first vice president of corporate responsibility.

In 2004, she established the Nike Foundation and developed the hypothesis of The Girl Effect, which holds that adolescent girls have a special power to prevent poverty from occurring.

Eitel is also the founder and chair of Girl Effect, an organization that aims to help 250 million young girls living in poverty in four key areas: ending early marriage and delaying first birth, improving girls’ health and safety, increasing secondary school completion, and improving access to economic assets.

Jacinda Ardern

Jacinda Ardern

Leading a country is difficult enough—try doing so as a new mother. Jacinda Ardern was the world’s youngest female head of state when she was elected Prime Minister of New Zealand in 2017 at the age of 37.

She gave birth to her first baby less than a year into her pregnancy and has subsequently made significant speeches with her daughter on her lap. Arden’s maternal qualities and femininity have aided her in leading causes such as unity and social change.

Simultaneously, Ardern has taken swift and effective action against gun violence. During the pandemic, her outstanding leadership resulted in just 25 New Zealanders dying from the virus.

Melanie Perkins

Melanie Perkins

Melanie Perkins wanted to make a difference when she saw it takes a whole semester of college to master the fundamentals of graphic design.

When she was 19, she began proposing the idea for Canva, an online platform that allows users to produce professional graphics quickly and for free. Perkins is one of the world’s youngest female tech CEOs, having grown her firm to $1 billion in just six years.

Perkins stands apart in a sea of typical male IT CEOs. Canva is used by an astounding 85 percent of Fortune 500 firms, and Perkins is determined to keep her company growing. Canva presently employs more than 800 people worldwide.

Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar

Lata Mangeshkar was a playback vocalist and occasional music composer from India. She is widely regarded as one of India’s best and most influential vocalists.

Her contributions to the Indian music business throughout a seven-decade career earned her titles such as “Queen of Melody,” “Nightingale of India,” and “Voice of the Millennium.”

Lata Mangeshkar recorded songs in thirty-six different Indian languages as well as a few other languages. The Government of India presented the Dadasaheb Phalke Award on her in 1989. In 2001, she was given the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honor, in appreciation of her contributions to the country.

France conferred on her its highest civilian award, Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour, in 2007. At one point, she appeared in the Guinness World Records which listed her as the most recorded artist in history between 1948 and 1987.

Ann Daniels

Ann Daniels

Ann Daniels is a motivational speaker and arctic adventurer from the United Kingdom. In 2002, she and her teammate Caroline Hamilton became the first women to reach both the North and South Poles as members of all-female teams.

Daniels grew up in Bradford, England, where he was born and raised with four elder brothers. She worked at NatWest, rising to the position of an assistant bank manager, which she left in 1994 when her triplets were born.

She originally arrived at the North Pole in the 1997 McVities Penguin Polar Relay and has since returned at least six times.

Her first solo attempt to trek to the North Pole from Russia was called off in 2005.

She was the expedition leader for the Catlin Arctic Survey trips in 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid

Dame Zaha Mohammad Hadid DBE RA was an Iraqi-British architect, artist, and designer who was regarded as a prominent player in late-twentieth-century and early-twentieth-century architecture. In quest of an alternative method to traditional architectural drawing, and motivated by Suprematism and the Russian avant-garde.

Hadid used painting as a design tool and abstraction as a Modernist investigative principle to reveal new domains of construction.

The Guardian dubbed her the “Queen of the Curve,” claiming she “liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive character.”

Her significant works include the London Aquatics Centre for the Olympics in 2012, the Broad Art Museum, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Guangzhou Opera House.

In 2004, Hadid became the first woman to earn the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In 2010 and 2011, she was awarded the Stirling Prize, the UK’s most prestigious architectural prize.

Elizabeth II appointed her a Dame in 2012 for her contributions to architecture, and in February 2016, the month before her death, she became the first woman to be personally given the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde has spent her whole financial career defying preconceptions. She was the first woman to serve as France’s finance minister, the International Monetary Fund’s managing director, and now the European Central Bank’s president.

In her present position, she is responsible for stabilizing the Eurozone banking sector throughout the epidemic. Lagarde was ranked the world’s second most influential woman in 2019.

Lagarde is a proponent of gender equality, noting that, despite encountering discrimination throughout her career, she is tearing down obstacles for future female leaders.