What Is the Most Important Challenge That Women Face Today? What Advice Would You Give Young Women Today?
Through the words and portraits that follow, you'll meet impressive, insightful women from all walks of life—women to whom National Geographic put the same set of questions. Some are notables from our new book WOMEN: The National Geographic Image Collection. Others are National Geographic Society scientists and explorers. Still others belong to Women of Impact, a 56,000-strong online community that National Geographic convened as a place to share women’s stories.
“Many women are still facing tyranny and control from the men in their society. This is a big challenge, but necessary for us to change.”As First Lady of the United States during her husband’s two terms , she was a literacy advocate. Through the George W. Bush presidential center, she now chairs a global initiative to improve women’s status.
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“Being raised by a single mother with no involvement of my father was really challenging. I grew up watching my mom struggle to pay bills and to feed my sister and I, but we never went without her love. Poverty and homelessness were two experiences I wouldn’t wish on anyone, but they made me a stronger person. Growing up near Chicago, I never got to study the ocean like I dreamt of, until I received a scholarship to study at the Duke University Marine Lab for a semester.
“The biggest hurdles I’ve had to overcome have probably been racism and misogyny and fat phobias. Just dealing with living in a body that this world has tried to legislate or discriminate against in a lot of different ways throughout history. Sort of working against that while trying to just live and thrive is a challenge.
“I had a breakthrough about two things during that first time that I lived underwater. One was as a scientist, getting to see the individuality of creatures In eco-conscious retail, Kris McDivitt headed Patagonia, and Doug Tompkins co-founded North Face. Kris retired in 1993; the two wed, and began buying and preserving parkland in Chile and Argentina. Since Doug’s death in a 2015 accident, Kris Tompkins presses on. Protected to date: 14.2 million acres.In her 20s she began work on technology that revolutionized the use of lasers—and won her a share of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics. Today she’s a physics professor.
“We need to elevate female voices and stories, in journalism, film, photography, and more. For too long we’ve been seeing the world primarily through men’s eyes.”An ocean ecologist, Giddens is a fellow at the National Geographic Society’s Exploration Technology Lab, where she’s developing a research program to assess biodiversity and the health of ecosystems in the deep sea.
What Is Your Greatest Strength? “My ability to ignore it when I get no for an answer.” — Alicia Garza “Probably my stubbornness. I get an idea in my mind, and I don’t want to give it up. My definition of success was not success in terms of monetary reward or even professional recognition.
“So many women lack self-confidence. You have to jump 30 more hurdles than the guy next to you to get to the same place. You have to be calculating, you have to be checking all the signals in the room, you have to pick your space, pick your time to say something, to be something. Imagine the inherent exhaustion in all of that! I would say that you need to go for things, trust your instincts, and remember that luck is often a product of hard work.
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