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28 WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP POPULATION HEALTH 7 healthcare pioneers on Time's 100 Women of the Year list By Andrea Park I n an effort to rectify the 72-year stretch during which Time awarded only a "Man of the Year" honor, before transitioning to the still largely male "Person of the Year" in 1999, the magazine is com- memorating 100 women who deserved equal honors throughout the time period. ese "oen overshadowed" women are honored with 89 Time covers commissioned from artists around the globe, as well as the 11 existing female Person of the Year covers, which Time le intact for the project. e 100 "Women of the Year" were compiled in honor of the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the U.S., with one woman or group of women chosen to repre- sent each year since 1920. In an article explaining Time's decision to revise its own history, Nancy Gibbs, former editor-in-chief of the magazine, wrote, "In Congress and courtrooms and corner offices and ivory towers, it was largely men who were writing the first dra of history, de- ciding what mattered, and who mattered, and why. So now that we are marking anniversaries, it was an irresistible exercise to go back and look again, at different ways of wielding power, and the different results derived." Among the 100 leaders spotlighted as Women of the Year are several who made major strides in healthcare, listed below: • 1925: Margaret Sanger, RN, an advocate for women's reproductive rights • 1953: Rosalind Franklin, PhD, who helped dis- cover the double-helix structure of DNA mol- ecules • 1973: Jane Roe, the pseudonymous woman at the center of the Supreme Court case that legal- ized abortion in the U.S. • 1978: Lesley Brown, the first woman to give birth via in vitro fertilization • 1979: Tu Youyou, who discovered the malaria treatment artemisinin • 1983: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, PhD, who helped identify the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) • 1994: Joycelyn Elders, MD, the first Afri- can-American and second female U.S. Surgeon General n 3 notes on leadership from Harvard Medical School's first black female class president By Emily Rappleye B oston-based Harvard Medical School's class of 2023 elected LaShyra "Lash" Nolen president last year. Ms. Nolen is the first black woman to be elected class president in Harvard Medical School history. She gave interviews to Teen Vogue and The Lily about her role and her thoughts on leadership. Three notes on leadership in the words of Ms. Nolen: 1. On improving the representation of black women in leader- ship: "I think it is important to show that black people can also be the face of a university," she told Teen Vogue. She said her vision for the future of black women in leadership is to "be seen, celebrat- ed and recognized for their greatness at the same level as those around them." 2. On building a more inclusive pipeline: "In everything I did, it was always related to this commitment to equity and social justice. Even in my role at LMU, I was trying to find a way to make sure that we built a pipeline for other students who looked like me, or who felt underrep- resented in student government to find their way to that kind of posi- tion," she told The Lily. Ms. Nolen was the president of student council at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, where she earned her bachelor's degree. 3. On failing and trying again: "There were so many moments in my life when I felt like my potential wasn't matching my outcomes. And there are going to be many moments in my life where I will feel that again," she told Teen Vogue. "But going through failure taught me how to be resilient, and the key to resilience is always remembering to stand back up when life knocks you down." n Why CEO candidate pools need more women By Emily Rappleye W hen CEO candidate pools had just one woman, she was nev- er picked for the job, according to a study by global leader- ship consulting firm DDI. What is more, 52 percent of CEO searches don't have a single female candidate, and just 25 percent of executive candidates and 19 percent of C-level candidates are women. With these numbers, it's no surprise women remain underrepresented in top roles. DDI noted that C-level executives are most commonly plucked from financial or operational functions, rather than IT or human resources. The study included 10 years of data on more than 55,000 executive as- sessments and 1,100 CEO candidates. Its data on women in executive searches is from 250 organizations. n

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