Dame Ninette de Valois, OM, CH, DBE, FRAD, FISTD (6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer and director of classical ballet.
She danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing The Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and one of the world's leading ballet companies.
Elly Beinhorn (30 May 1907 – 28 November 2007) was a German aviator and pilot.
She was born in Hannover, Germany on 30 May 1907. In 1928, she attended a lecture by famed aviator Hermann Köhl, who had recently completed a historic East-West Atlantic crossing. This lecture is described as the spark that ignited her interest in aviation.
Sheryl Kara Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. Prior to Facebook, Sheryl was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google.
She also helped launch Google's philanthropic arm Google.org.
Guest blog post: Soraya Chemaly is a feminist starist and media critic. She is also an insightful and thought-provoking blogger whom I greatly respect and admire. I highly recommend following her on Twitter.
This excellent piece was originally published on The Huffington Post.
Dear Girls,
Guest blog post by Brenda Slavin.
Why do we hold ourselves hostage to rules that don’t really even exist? Day after day we play out conforming to rules that we ourselves have created which only hold us back.
Some of these “rules” have been instilled into us. Not only by our upbringing and influences, also by our society and the media. We follow them habitually never giving much thought to if they make sense to what is right for us as individuals.