Judy Sheindlin
Judy Blum Sheindlin is arguably the most famous judge of her time, yet most people wouldn’t know her last name, recognizing her only as “Judge Judy.”
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Ruth Handler
Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler is best-known as the creator of the Barbie doll
Sallie Krawcheck
Sallie Krawcheck had worked in finance for over a decade, including holding c-suite leadership roles at major companies, when she co-founded Ellevest, a woman-focused investment platform, in 2014.
Wendy Freedman
Dr. Wendy Freedman was the lead author on the 2001 paper “Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant;” Freedman and her team had calculated more precisely than ever before the rate at which the universe is expanding, or the Hubble constant.
Lina Stern
Dr. Lina Stern faced the dual barriers of being a woman and being Jewish but nevertheless was able to become a groundbreaking researcher who introduced the scientific community to the barrière hématoencéphalique—the blood-brain barrier.
Nina Zagat
Co–founder of the eponymous Zagat guide
Claudia Sheinbaum
In 2024, Mexican politician and environmental engineer Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman and first Jewish person elected president of Mexico, winning a landslide victory.
Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel was known as a textile designer within her field for decades. But it wasn’t until The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of her wardrobe in 2005—13 years after she retired and well into her 80s—that she achieved broader recognition as an influential tastemaker.
Katharine Graham
Owner, board chair and publisher of The Washington Post for decades
Eve Ensler
Playwright Eve Ensler, who would later go by V, debuted her ground-breaking The Vagina Monologues in 1996.