Tuesday 22 December 2020

Top 5 INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN

Here is the short biography of some top inspirational women. Hope you enjoy knowing them.



Category: Media

Orpah Gail Winfrey is a Chairperson & CEO of Harpo production and Oprah Winfrey Network. She is a Tv host, Author, Media Executive, Producer, Actress & Philanthropist. She was born in a small village in Mississippi, USA & brought up under a single parent Mr Gail Winfrey. She has seen a lot of hardship & cruelty of society in her early day's life. She started her career as co-anchor, radio jockey, and reporter and went on to host a low-rated Chicago talk show which is now known as "Oprah Winfrey Show". Later on, she also worked in animated movies & won two beauty contests. Her contribution to society is given in form of "Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy" for girls. In 2013, she won the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama. 

                                     


Category: Author

J.K. Rowling is a writer & philanthropist from England. Being a single parent & in order to feed her children, she started writing kid's novels with all her writing skills. After the rejection of the first series of harry potter by 12 publishing houses, she got kicked towards success. She has also written many other popular novels which got filmed & with this rowling became the first billionaire author of the US.



Category: Biotechnology

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw was a doctor aspirant who turned out to be a leading entrepreneur of the biotechnology company, 'Biocon'. She is an entrepreneur who has seen a lot of hustle as a woman in the brewery field. She has been awarded Padma Shri & Padma Bhushan.



Category: Social Worker & Teacher

Sudha Murthy is a writer, teacher, social worker & philanthropist. She is the Indian Engineering Teacher & established the "Murthy classical library of India" at Harvard University. Today She is known for her literature in Kannada & English and for social work for school libraries, computer labs, etc. She is the receiver of the Padma Shri award from president  A.P.J. Kalam.

 

Category: Food & Beverages Industry

Indra Nooyi is an entrepreneur & CEO of Pepsico. In 1994 she joined PepsiCo as CEO &  restructured KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell into Tricon Global Restaurants. In order to shift the corporate funding from junk food to healthier alternatives, she reclassified PepsiCo products into three categories Fun for you, Better for you & Good for you. Later on, redesigning packaging to reduce waste, switching to renewable energy & Maintaining personal connections with employees to retain them are some major work done by her for PepsiCo.

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