The roster is, overall, both racially and nationally diverse-though as Chinese-American dancer Yuan Yuan Tan has spent most of her life in this country, East Asia seems underrepresented. Brazilian soccer star Sisleide “Sissi” Lima do Amor is the one athlete in the lineup. Marie Curie gets a nod for her two Nobel prizes, Egyptian Aisha Rateb for her trailblazing legal career, and Joanne “J.K.” Rowling for Harry Potter. Activists’ causes include the right to an education (Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexico, and Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan), environmentalism (Wangari Maathai, Kenya), anti-war protests (Leymah Gbowee, Liberia) and women’s suffrage (Kate Sheppard, New Zealand, whose cause included Maori women). Now it’s being ingrained in the pages of a book that will hopefully inspire a generation of young girls to persevere when authorities try to silence them.A scope-broadening companion to She Persisted: 13 American Women Who Changed the World (2017).Īrranged in their subjects’ birth order (though frequently without any dates), the brief tributes focus on the achievements of selected women from countries other than the U.S.

The phrase has been printed on all sorts of memorabilia like t-shirts, mugs, and posters. Anthony, to modern ones like Malala Yousafzai and the author’s mother, Hillary Clinton. Honorees ranged from historical examples, like Susan B. Immediately, #NeverthelessShePersisted started trending on twitter, but people remixed the misogynistic phrase to celebrate women who overcame adversity. Read More: #DressLikeAWoman: Women React to Donald Trump’s Dress Code For Female Staff Republicans stopped Warren mid-speech, forcing her to finish via Facebook live outside the Senate chamber. “Mr Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge,” the letter read. Elizabeth Warren, These 17 Women Also Fearlessly Persisted Warren protested Jeff Sessions’ nomination for Attorney General by reading a Coretta Scott King letter to the Senate judiciary committee, opposing his nomination for a federal judgeship in 1986. Persistence has changed the course of history - I'm so excited to share stories of girls & women who didn't take no for answer on May 30th! /IMWWou6kBX

The book is illustrated by Alexandra Boiger, who has worked on more than a dozen children’s books that featuring female protagonists (including one on Jackie Kennedy). Take Action: Call on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to Support the Girl AgendaĬhelsea Clinton is writing, “She Persisted,” about 13 women who have changed the world, set for release on May 30. Now, the phrase is inspiring a children’s book. When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell silenced Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor last February, “Nevertheless, she persisted,” quickly became a rallying cry for feminists everywhere.

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