International Women's Day is observed on March 8 every year. Woman is taken from the word female in Sanskrit which means noble and capable. Noble itself in KBBI has the meaning of honorable; valuable. Meanwhile, capable means being able to do something.
This means, women are honorable and valuable beings who are able to do everything. Women can change to change the future of other women for the better.
Women are also able to do various innovative things that can inspire many people, you know. For example, as has been done by the following 5 female figures. Anyone? Come on, take a look at 5 innovative female figures that you can use as role models!
Linda Sarsour
Who doesn't know Linda Sarsour? He is a Muslim who grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Linda is known for her brave nature and likes to talk straight.
She is a woman who is very inspiring because she dares to change the stereotype of Muslim women. In addition, he is also known as an award-winning racial justice and civil rights activist, community organizer, social media maverick, and Islamic fighter.
Linda is one of the women who has always been at the forefront of major civil rights campaigns, calling for an end to unwarranted surveillance of New York's Muslim community, and working to build solidarity among America's Muslim community.
Melanie Perkins
Melanie Perkins is an innovative woman who never gives up and is determined. She became one of the women who succeeded in proving that effort will never betray results.
Melanie Perkins is the founder and CEO of startup Canva. She had a long road to success and became the second richest woman in Australia. He even had been rejected by 100 investors you know.
Melanie admitted that she had to go to San Francisco to submit her business proposal to potential investors. Even though at that time her efforts had not yielded results, Melanie was still optimistic that her business would succeed one day.
He went home to evaluate and improve the concept of his proposal. In 2012, he tried to find investors again and for the first time he succeeded in cooperating with investors with a total funding of 3.6 million USD raised from Matrix Partners, Interwest Partners and other startups.
Thanks to her efforts, the Canva platform is now used by more than 30 million people worldwide and Melanie Perkins is also listed as the second richest woman in Australia.
Susan Wojcicki
Susan Wojcicki is a veteran at Google who is dubbed the 'Mother of Google'. The reason, the Stanford graduate became one of the first female employees at Google. Her career journey began when she was pregnant and needed additional expenses.
Launching from detikInet, the founders of Google, namely Larry Page and Sergey Brin at that time worked with Wojcicki. They developed a project during their college years by renting Wojcicki's garage. After being developed, the project became a search engine that was named Google.
Although Wojcicki is not well known in the tech community, he has made major contributions to Google Images and Google Books. He even threw the idea of acquiring YouTube by Google in 2006 until now he can become the CEO of YouTube.
Thanks to his tenacity in pursuing his dreams, Wojcicki was named 'the most important person in advertising' and was also included in Time magazine's 2015 list of 100 most influential people. Even she was asked to be the 'most powerful woman on the internet'. That's great huh?
Alamanda Shantika
Who does not know Alamanda Shantika? He is a founder and President Director of Binar Academy who is also a former Vice President of Product at Go-Jek. He has won a number of awards.
Reporting from detikInet, one of the prestigious awards he has won is the Women in Tech from the Habibie Festival. Ala became one of the innovative female figures because she wanted to change the mindset of women in the IT field.
According to him, in this digital era, there is no longer any limit for women who cannot use technology. If only men can do it, women can do it too. He saw that there were wide opportunities for women in the world of technology.
Ala also revealed that currently there are 40 percent of women's desire to enter the world of technology. He hopes that women are not afraid because in fact this is not a terrible thing. Fear is only in the mind and not necessarily that all happened.
Merry Riana
Did you know that Merry Riana is nicknamed the 'Kartini of the Present'? He got the nickname because of his struggle to achieve his dream. He was born from a simple family who had the desire to study at Trisakti majoring in Electrical Engineering.
However, unfortunately he had to give up his dream and move to Singapore because of the 1998 Trisakti tragedy. At that time, looting was everywhere and the target was ethnic Chinese.
Even when in Singapore, Merry's life was not calm because he had to find a place to live. Merry did not know despair, he kept trying until he managed to get a place to stay in the dormitory. He also studied until he graduated from college in Singapore with a major in Electronics Engineering (EEE).
So, those were 5 innovative female figures that you can use as role models. Hopefully their stories are useful and can encourage your confidence to continue to dare to move forward in achieving your dreams!