Women Role Models

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Margaret Thatcher (plz see post 14) - Politics, Economics

Marie Curie - first female Nobel prize winner in Physics in early 1900s ( i think, she won twice actually). check her biography - its pretty impressive.

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miss gul i am copy pasting it so please don’t mind but here are Lady DIana’s charity works
Charity work

Starting in the mid- to late 1980s, the Princess of Wales became well known for her support of charity projects. This stemmed naturally from her role as Princess of Wales - she was expected to engage in hospital visitations where she comforted the sick and in so doing, assumed the patronage of various charitable organizations - and from an interest in certain illnesses and health-related matters. Owing to Public Relations efforts in which she agreed to appear as a figurehead, Diana used her influential status to positively assist the campaign against landmines, a cause which won the Nobel Prize in 1997 in tribute, and with helping to decrease discrimination against victims of AIDS. Her work often drew an analogy with that of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
In April 1987, the Princess of Wales was one of the first high-profile celebrities to be photographed touching a person infected with HIV. Her contribution to changing the public opinion of AIDS sufferers was summarised in December 2001 by Bill Clinton at the ‘Diana, Princess of Wales Lecture on AIDS’:

“In 1987, when so many still believed that AIDS could be contracted through casual contact, Princess Diana sat on the sickbed of a man with AIDS and held his hand. She showed the world that people with AIDS deserve no isolation, but compassion and kindness. It helped change world’s opinion, and gave hope to people with AIDS.”[RIGHT]—Bill Clinton[/RIGHT]

Diana also made clandestine visits to show kindness to the sick. According to nurses, she would turn up unannounced (for example, at the Mildmay Hospice in London) with specific instructions that her visit was to be concealed from the media.citation needed]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)
The pictures of Diana touring an Angolan minefield, in a ballistic helmet and flak jacket were seen worldwide. It was during this campaign that conservatives accused the Princess of meddling in politics and declared her a ‘loose cannon’ [8]](BBC ON THIS DAY | 15 | 1997: Princess Diana sparks landmines row). In August that year, just days before her death, she visited Bosnia with the Landmine Survivors Network. Her interest in landmines was focused on the injuries they create, often to children, long after a conflict is over.
She is believed to have influenced the signing, though only after her death, of the Ottawa Treaty, which created an international ban on the use of anti-personnel landmines.[11]](Diana, Princess of Wales - Wikipedia) Introducing the Second Reading of the Landmines Bill 1998 to the British House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, paid tribute to Diana’s work on landmines:

“All Honourable Members will be aware from their postbags of the immense contribution made by Diana, Princess of Wales to bringing home to many of our constituents the human costs of landmines. The best way in which to record our appreciation of her work, and the work of NGOs that have campaigned against landmines, is to pass the Bill, and to pave the way towards a global ban on landmines.[12]](Diana, Princess of Wales - Wikipedia)”[RIGHT]—Robin Cook[/RIGHT]

As of January 2005, Diana’s activities in support of the landmines campaign have sadly been ineffective. The United Nations appealed to the nations which produced and stockpiled the largest numbers of landmines (China, India, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States) to sign the Ottawa Treaty forbidding their production and use, for which Diana had campaigned. Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said that landmines remained “a deadly attraction for children, whose innate curiosity and need for play often lure them directly into harm’s way”. Diana should be credited with at least trying to bring to world attention the terrible damage such mines create in whole communities

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elizabeth dole

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Marie Curie - the first ever major female scientist, whose achievements in discovering radioactivity and being the first and only person to ever win 2 Noble Prized in different fields of science proved without doubt that women are intellectually every bit the equal to men, and can be superior to them to.

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Ume-Zafeerah, Diana was a known adultress and therefore should not be a role model of any kind to anyone.

what are your thoughts on this fatwa now???
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How many men that are adulterers remain role models? All the good the woman did in her life for others is negated because she was "a known adultress"? Can she not be a role model in many areas of her life, but not in her personal sex life?

BTW, there were rumours of Marie Curie having affairs. If she did, are her acheivements and role model worthiness negated?

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so many....but don compare the ratio of men n women

Florance Nightngale....nurse
Naomi Klein......writer (books like No LOGO)
artist.....Barbera Kruger (my favorite), cindy sherman, etc
economic.....HP CEO Carly Fiorina
politic....Benizir bhutto, Maliha lodhi(former Us n now Uk ambassador), Farial gohar (UN ambassador), Fatima Jinnah, Indira Gandhi (x india PM), Bangali n Sri lankan PMz.
Martha Stewart, Asma Jahangir, Hillary Clinton, and many more. **

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Ewwwwwwwww

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Brenda C. Barnes is the president, chairman and chief executive of Sara lee, and previously was the first female ceo of Sara lee. She has been listed in forbes power rankings of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women since 2004.

one more lady:)

MS: I agree with seminole

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Saying that people can be role models for the good aspects of their personality and you can ignore the bad is absurd.

It's like saying Adolf Hitler can be a role model because he was a brave soldier and incredible orator, and you can forget about his war-mongering Jew-hating side.

Role models are examples for others and as such must be viewed holistically - they can only be such if their public face does not include deeds of ill repute.

As for Marie Curie, the allegations of adultery were never proven and now they never can be. No one should ever be judged on suspicion alone. Then again, coming from a country that has for the past several years incarcerated people on suspicion alone and without trial, I wouldn't expect you rebel colonists to get that.

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Getting back to topic, two female role models are Lydia Litvyak and Katya Budanova. They are the two most lethal female pilots of all time, shooting down 23 nazi planes between them.

They both also present an example by laying down their lives for their country. Katya Budanova in particular died when she fearlessly and single-handedly tried to take on 3 men in air-to-air combat, killing one before being killed herself. That kind of courage makes you a role model.

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Zobia:

I can't emphasize enough to give me accomplishment/s in one or two lines or even half a line along with the name of the person. The reason is so that I can stay on the same page as you.
I can very well search for Benizir Bhutho or Princess Diana but what you might find a quality of role model in her can be different from what I might acknowledge (this is just an example). So, its important for me to know what achievement you are really referring to along with the name of the person. I know there are great women out there who have walked side by side with men but very few that had exclusive goals/acomplishments and that's what I need. :)

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^^ well dat is y i didnt put Benizir Bhutho in the begining.....there are several factors which i called lacking leader quality....(sorry i cant reveal them)

but what is the criteria "U r looking for" is vauge to me....i will appreciate if you reveal the real picture of your visuality. "for learner even a word of wisdom is treasure"

Naomi Klein is the world renounced writer, her book no logo discloses the Falun Dafa of Corporates on poor Homo sapiens. (indeed for me it no different than Raphael "skool of Athens")

Barbera Kruger- her unique style bewilderedly confesses mockery of one's inner self on a big and obvious picture. her framing considered prophetic visuality denoted to what we call deceleration of humanity and tangling of opticality as matador

(well these are mine 2 favorite women...just google them you will find the obvious pitcure of their respective contributions, since not all of them are multitask so you may easily get focus on their magnum opus)

btw there are some women whom u don wana know the contributions of, like

Sultana Daku
General rani......lol

@ Anwaar Qureshi
try not to comment if you just have one side picture. there are so many things that might you lose this case. (lets not go there)

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People who find killing abhorrent would not find these women to be good role models at all. Neither would many religious conservatives who believe women have no business in warfare. Not everyone gets aroused over the military and wars as you do. So role models are very subjective.

The fact that Diana did not have a monogamous relationship doesn't mean squat to many. What she did for others far outweigh her personal sins. It is kinda like those who were up in arms over Clinton lying about having consentual oral sex but give Bush a free ride when his lies have led to tens of thousands of deaths. Subjective.

Diana saved lives. Your kamikaze heroines took lives. A matter of perspective.

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Adriana Lima: finished first in a Ford Supermodel of Brazil search and second in Supermodel of world contest. Check her biography - its pretty impressive.

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^ Yeah, thats what the world needs... a supermodel for rolemodel. Who is she dating now again?

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Now you are getting ridiculous. How did the number of lives Diana "saved" even remotely compare to the number of lives these two women saved through direct participation in defeating Nazi Germany?

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for me a person who always shows cunningness and bad mouth about Islamic judiciary system is well enough to go as "Ewwwwww" than considering him/her a freakin role model.

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Maddy, I have to agree with Seminole unkil here. You have a rather unhealthy fascination and love for killing and wars and all things death. Cheer up, old man! Life is full of life. I am sure if you think about it, you can find another supermodel to propose as a superb rolemodel here. Or at the very least, someone who will cheer up your audience.

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Okay sorry from straying from the topic :blush:
Here you go Bakauli
Fatima Jinnah
During the transfer of power in 1947, Jinnah formed the Women’s Relief Committee, which later formed the nucleus for the All Pakistan Women’s Association (APWA). She also played a significant role in the settlement of Muhajir in the new state of Pakistan.
In the 1960s, Jinnah returned to the forefront of political life when she ran for the presidency of Pakistan. She described her opponent, Ayub Khan, as a dictator. Jinnah argued that, by coming to terms with India on the Indus Water dispute, Ayub had surrendered control of the rivers to India. Jinnah lost the election, but only narrowly, winning a majority in some provinces. The election did not conform to international standards and journalists, as well as subsequent historians, have often suggested it was rigged in favour of Ayub Khan.

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how abt we not count actresses/models/celebs for being role models?