10
Most Influencial Women
Emma Watson Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson is an English actress, model, and activist. Born in Paris and brought up in Oxfordshire, Watson attended the Dragon School and trained as an actress at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts. From 2011 to 2014, Watson split her time between working on film projects and continuing her education, studying at Brown University and Worcester College, Oxford and graduating from Brown with a bachelor’s degree in English literature in May 2014. Her modelling work has included campaigns for Burberry and Lancôme. As a fashion consultant, she helped create a line of clothing for People Tree.She was honoured by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2014, winning for British Artist of the Year. That same year, she was appointed as a UN Women Goodwill ambassador and helped launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate gender equality.
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Michelle Obama Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to the 44th U.S. President, Barack Obama, is an American writer, lawyer and university administrator. She got her degree in Harvard University. As first lady, she focused her attention on social issues such as poverty, healthy living and education. Both Michelle and Barack Obama have stated that their personal priority is their family. The parents realized that the move from Chicago to Washington D.C. would be a major adjustment for any family. Residing in the White House, having Secret Service protection and always being in the wake of their parents’ public obligations dramatically transformed their lives. Both parents tried to make their daughters’ world as “normal” as possible, with set times for studying, going to bed and getting up. “My first priority will always be to make sure that our girls are healthy and grounded,” Michelle has said. “Then I want to help other families get the support they need, not just to survive, but to thrive.” Beside being known for such bestseller books as “Becoming”, “American Grown”, “Farewell Speeches”, “Holliday Messages from the Obamas”, etc Michelle started numerous social campaigns, and one of them “Global Girls Alliance”, which is aimed to support adolescent girls around the world to get education went viral and was supported by all major Hollywood celebrities and World public figures.