Time Magazine released a list of women who broke grounds in their respective fields and career. The campaign #SheIsTheFirst is so inspiring as it profiles these women and all they did to achieve what they have now.
The magazine states that their goal with Firsts is for every woman and girl to find someone whose presence in the highest reaches of success says to her that it is safe to climb, come on up, the view is spectacular.
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Madeleine Albright – is the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State
Mary Barra – is the first woman CEO of a major car company
Patricia Bath – is the first person to invent and demonstrate groundbreaking eye surgery
Elizabeth Blackburn – is the first woman to become president of the Salk Institute
Ursula Burns – is the first black woman to run a Fortune 500 company
Candis Cayne – is the first transgender woman with a major role on primetime TV
Hillary Rodham Clinton – is the first woman to win a major party’s nomination for President
Eileen Collins – is the first woman to command a space shuttle
Kellyanne Conway – is the first woman to run a winning presidential campaign
Mo’ne Davis – is the first girl to pitch a shutout and win a game in a Little League World Series
Ellen DeGeneres – is the first to star as an openly gay character on primetime TV
Gabby Douglas – is the first American gymnast to win solo and team all-around gold at one Olympics
Rita Dove – is the first black U.S. poet laureate
Ann Dunwoody – is the first woman to rise to four-star general in the U.S. military
Ava DuVernay – is the first black woman to direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar
Sylvia Earle – is the first woman to become chief scientist of NOAA
Aretha Franklin – is the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Melinda Gates – is the first woman to give away more than $40 billion to charity
Selena Gomez – is the first person to reach 100 million followers on Instagram
Nikki Haley – is the first Indian-American woman to be elected governor
Carla Hayden – is the first woman and first African American to be the Librarian of Congress
Mazie Hirono – is the first Asian-American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate
Mae Jemison – is the first woman of color in space
Maya Lin – is the first woman to design a memorial on the national mall
Loretta Lynch – is the first black woman to become U.S. Attorney General
Rachel Maddow – is the first openly gay anchor to host a primetime news program
Rita Moreno – is the first Latina to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony
Jennifer Yuh Nelson – is the first woman to solo-direct a major Hollywood animated feature
Ilhan Omar – is the first Somali-American Muslim woman to become a legislator
Danica Patrick – is the first woman to lead in the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500
Nancy Pelosi – is the first woman to become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representative
Michelle Phan – is the first woman to build a $500 million company from a web series
Issa Rae – is the first black woman to create and star in a premium cable series
Shonda Rhimes – is the first woman to create 3 hit shows with over 100 episodes each
Lori Robinson – is the first woman to lead a top-tier U.S. Combat Command
Sheryl Sandberg – is the first woman to become a billionaire from a social media company
Katharine Jefferts Schori – is the first woman elected as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Cindy Sherman – is the first woman to break $1 million in a photography sale
Kathryn Smith – is the first woman to become a full-time coach in the NFL
Kathryn Sullivan – is the first American woman to walk in space
Barbara Walters – is the first woman to co-anchor a network evening news program
Alice Waters – is the first woman to win the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef
Geisha Williams – is the first Latina CEO of a Fortune 500 company
Serena Williams – is the first tennis player to win 23 Grand Slam singles titles in the open era
Oprah Winfrey – is the first woman to own and produce her own talk show
Janet Yellen – is the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve
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