M.I.A
Creative

M.I.A

Born Maya Arulpragasam, the 34-year-old rapper/pop star first generated buzz when her 2004 single “Galang” hit airwaves, followed by a leak of ...

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Indra Nooyi
Executive

Indra Nooyi

When Indra Nooyi first stepped through the door at PepsiCo in 1994, it was as a corporate strategist in the midst of the “Cola Wars.” By 1998, she was ...

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Susan Dell
Charity

Susan Dell

Co-founder and chairman of The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, the wife of Michael Dell (and mother of his four children) spends her days eliminating ...

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Susan Hockfield
Health/Science

Susan Hockfield

As the first woman president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an accomplished neuroscientist, Susan Hockfield is showing her daughter ...

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Toshi Reagon
Creative

Toshi Reagon

Skinny bitches beware. This blues/folk artist is large, unimaginably  talented and uncompromising about both her physical appearance and her music. Signed ...

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Theo Colborn
Green

Theo Colborn

An unhealthy environment can make all of us sick, and that is the driving force behind Dr. Theo Colbron’s life work. Even more interesting is the fact ...

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Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Health/Science

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

As an anthropologist and primatologist, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy has used her field knowledge to better understand and support modern mothers. Forced to slow ...

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Nora Ephron
Creative

Nora Ephron

Big-budget directing has traditionally been a boys’ club, which makes director, screenwriter, and producer Nora Ephron’s accomplishments all the more ...

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Chanda Kochhar
Executive

Chanda Kochhar

Kochhar is not only the first female chief executive of ICICI Bank— India’s second-largest bank, with assets topping $100 billion and subsidiaries in ...

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J.K. Rowling
Entrepreneurial

J.K. Rowling

Yes, Rowling made reading cool for an entire generation of children (and their parents), but she’s one of our most entrepreneurial moms because she ...

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