The Lives of Great Women Leaders & You

If you are a girl or young woman who has ambition, or a dream of achieving something significant, yet think you cannot do it, this book is for you. The author believes that to accomplish your potential, at the beginning of your journey, what you most need is exposure to the lives and accomplishments of women who were once like you.

What you find in the stories of other women is not only the qualities they possessed that supported their interests, but steps they took to pursue their goals.

This new book tells the inspiring stories of more than twenty women and girls (the youngest being Malala Yousafzai, born in 1997), in Math and Science, Society and Culture, Government and Politics and in the Arts, finishing with an extensive chapter on "Finding Your Own Way to Lead."

Dr. Joan Franklin Smutny is Director of the Center for Gifted, a Northern Illinois University Partner, and Director of the Midwest Torrance Center for Creativity. She is a winner of the NAGC Distinguished Service Award for outstanding contribution to the field of education. She directs programs for thousands of gifted children every year and teaches courses on gifted education for graduate students. She is editor of the Gifted Children Journal, contributing editor of Understanding Our Gifted and the Roeper Review for gifted education professionals, and a feature writer for the Gifted Education Communicator. She has authored many books and articles on gifted education.