Tobi Ijalana
From music to literature, sports, business and politics and other areas of life, some women are really proving that they are the stronger sex. As the world marks the International Women’s Day today,Phenomenal.com.ng, assembles some women who made outstanding successes after last year’s International Women’s Day was celebrated.
Ada Hegerberg
Football history was made when Ada Hegerberg became the first female winner of a Ballon d’Or award as the best footballer in the world, which had only ever been given to male players until December 2018.
Michelle Obama
The Former first lady made history with her fast-selling book, ‘Becoming’, which was released on November 13, 2018. It has already sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S. and Canada across all formats.
According to Amazon.com, Michelle’s Becoming is the best selling book of 2018 and is still ahead of other publications. It is now in its sixth printing, with 3.4 million copies in print.
Ariana Grande
Ariana made history in music when she broke her new musical-inspired record, ‘7 Rings’, which had nearly 15 million plays on Spotify within 24 hours, breaking the streaming record previously held by Mariah Carey for ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You.’
She also became the first artiste to seize the number one, two and three slots of the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously since The Beatles in 1964.
Tammie Jo Shults
A former member of the US navy and a pilot, she was celebrated as a hero last April after an emergency landing, saving the lives of 148 passengers.
Beyoncé
JayZ wife made the Coachella Festival history in April last year with more than 400,000 viewers across the world tuning in to watch her performance streamed live on YouTube. It was the most viewed Coachella performance ever.
Nadia Mura
She was previously captured by ISIS and sold into sex slavery, but now an amazing activist speaking out and campaigning against sexual violence.
In October, she became the first Iraqi ever to win a Nobel Peace Prize at just 25 years old.
Kylie Jenner
She became the youngest self made billionaire at age 21, with her company Kylie Cosmetics, which is said to be worth at least $900 million. She dethroned Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as the youngest self-made billionaire of all time.
Taylor Swift
In October last year, Taylor grabbed the Artiste of the Year at the American Music Awards against an all-male nominee list of top artistes including Drake, Ed Sheeran and Post Malone.
She also broke the record for the most amount of AMA wins by any female artist, with a total of 23 awards now more than Whitney Houston.
Irene O’Shea
An Australian woman who jumped out of a plane on her 102nd birthday in December, she became the oldest skydiver in the world – during her third year doing the jump.
Also, in June, the newly appointed Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced the members of his cabinet, and almost three quarters of them, were women.
