Celebrating 10 years of The Female Lead 🎊
Our book is on offer for just £10 for a limited time 👀
The Female Lead turns 10 this year 🎉
From the very beginning, it has been our joy to build this incredible community and share stories of women who inspire, challenge and lead the way. Over the past decade, we’ve celebrated voices from every walk of life and couldn’t be prouder of the movement you have become part of.
To mark this special occasion, our book, The Female Lead Volume II: 'We Rise By Lifting Others', is on offer for just £10 for a limited time. Every purchase helps us run the charity and support the next generation of girls.
In our book, we spotlight and share the stories of 67 truly remarkable women: from world leaders, artists and activists to engineers, writers, athletes and entrepreneurs.
The women interviewed exclusively in the book have come together to inspire future generations and honour the women on whose shoulders we stand.
They are trailblazers. They are heroines. And we celebrate them all. For a taster of the kinds of stories to expect, enjoy our interviews below from Jade Thirlwall, Jodie Whittaker and, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer.
Thank you for being part of our journey – we wouldn’t be here without you.
With gratitude,
The Female Lead team
Jade Thirlwall: “I didn’t feel White enough, Black enough or Arab enough”
The Little Mix singer reflects on identity, resilience and the power of self-acceptance
Jodie Whittaker: I was 'representing women' as the first female Doctor Who - it had political meaning for me
Jodie Whittaker on the pressure and pride of being the first female Doctor
They said her uterus would fall out. She ran the marathon anyway.
Kathrine Switzer didn’t mean to make history in 1967, she just wanted to run.
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