Female Forces

I've been having a conversation recently with a psychologist to help test a program he's working on. A program that leverages the concept of role modelling to help people define their goals and values.

While very interesting, there is a lack of women role models represented in the program, in fact Madonna so far is the only one. When asked why, the psychologist said that she was the only input he'd gotten when he asked other women about who they thought should or might be represented.

How strange. Because it's not that there aren't any. So allow me to come up with a few suggestions across discipline, culture, and time - fictional as well as real:

Alicia Keys
Amelia Earhart
Angela Davis

Anita Roddick

Anne Frank

Annie Lennox

Aung San Suu Kyi

Benazir Bhuto

Billie Jean King

Cleopatra

Coco Chanel

Eleanor Roosevelt

Evita Peron

Florence Nightingale

Golda Meir

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Helen Keller

Hillary Clinton

Indira Gandhi

Jeanne d'Arc
Josephine Baker

Katarina the Great

Katherine Graham

Leonora Christina Ulfeldt

Madeleine Albright

Madonna

Margaret Thatcher

Marie Antoinette

Marie Curie

Marta Stewart

Martina Navratilova

Mary Queen of Scots
Maya Angelou

Mother Theresa

Nadia Comaneci

Oprah Winfrey

Patti Smith

Pocahontas

Princess Diana

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Victoria
Scarlett O'Hara
Virginia Woolf

Whoopi Goldberg