StThey are women with the most disparate stories, from all over the world, united from the impact that they have managed to exercise in their sector to build a fairer and more equitable world.
The 12 women chosen by Time
From Cate Blanchett to Olena Shevchenco passing through Masih Alinejadthe magazine Time announced the 12 Women of the Year 2023 who, as per tradition, will participate in the annual Time “Women of the Year” gala in Los Angeles on March 8 for International Women’s Day.
From Cate Blanchett to Olena Shevchenco via Masih Alinejad, “Time” magazine has announced the 12 Women of the Year 2023
Cate Blanchett and Angela Bassett
Cate Blanchett is perhaps the best known name: actress and winner of two Oscars, four Golden Globes, four Baftas, Blanchett is a UNHCR ambassador and made the list of women of the year 2023 because, according to the Times: «he is aware of how each global problem is related to another, and yet another, and so on».
Among the women of the year who belong to the entertainment world there are, however, also Angela Bassett, Oscar nominee for Wakanda Forever whose interpretations have taught the complexity and profound humanity of being a woman.
AND the actress and producer of Abbott Elementary, Fifth Brunsonfor its satirical yet loving portrayal of the world of teachers, janitors, principals, and parents trying to make ends meet in an underfunded public school.
From Brazil to Iran for rights
It could not be missing Aniella Franco, now Minister for Racial Equality in President Lula’s new Brazilian government, who turned to politics after the assassination of her sister Marielle, a Rio de Janeiro city councilor. And now, she says, “I fight for something much bigger than me».
Just as he could not fail to enter between 12, Masih Alinejad, the journalist who lives in the US in a secret FBI refuge with her family because of the denunciations that the activist has been making loudly against the restrictions imposed on women in Iran calling the compulsory hijab a “wall”.
The struggles in Ukraine, Pakistan and Mexico
In Ukrainehowever, there is Olena Shevchenko who spent years a defend women’s rights and LGBTQI that the war in Russia has made groups even more marginalized and more vulnerable.
And in Pakistan, Ayisha Siddiqa who after seeing the devastating effects of climate change on his community delivered a powerful speech at the November United Nations Climate Conference in Egypt.
In Mexico, the feminist activist Veronica Cruz Sanchez she helps women who need to have an abortion to do so safely and is now turning her attention north, advocating American women affected by Roe v. Wade last summer.
From abortion to equality in the world of work
The indie-rock musician is also supporting the right to abortion this year Phoebe Bridgerswho has long blended her art with activism, came forward last year to share that she had an abortion.
Makiko Ono instead, she is a manager who on March 24 will become CEO of Suntory Beverages, one of the world’s leading food and beverage companies, based in Japan. According to Time, Suntory is the most valuable female-led company in Japanwhere less than 1% of listed companies have a woman as CEO.
The 12 women of Time in sports
In the sports field there is Megan Rapinoe, American soccer player of the OL Reign and the US national team, Ballon d’Or 2019. Openly lesbian, she has been fighting for equal pay in the world of football for years.
Ramla AliInstead, she is a professional boxer refugee advocate originally from Somalia. In 2018 you founded the Sisters Club, a non-profit organization that offers boxing lessons to women who usually don’t have access to the sport. AND the first Somali boxer to compete in the Olympic Games.
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