Today is International Women’s Day, dedicated to celebrating the achievements of women and girls across the globe, and fighting for a gender equal world.
Women aross Liverpool and Merseyside have achieved incredible things, from becoming the city’s first female Mayor, to creating initiatives aimed at improving the safety of women and girls.
In honour of International Women’s Day, we have created a list of some of Liverpool’s most inspirational and influential women, showing girls across the region that anything is possible.
1. Liverpool’s most inspirational and influential women
These powerful women have achieved great things in Merseyside. | LW
2. Mayor Joanne Anderson
Joanne Anderson was elected as the first female Mayor of Liverpool in 2021, after serving as a councillor for Princes Park ward for two years. She is also the first black woman to be directly elected as a Mayor in the UK. | Liverpool City Council Photo: Liverpool City Council
3. Alex Greenwood
Alex Greenwood won Euro 2022 with the Lionesses and has been immortalised with a massive mural in the heart of her hometown, Bootle. It takes pride of place on the busy town centre thoroughfare and can be seen by thousands of schoolchildren, shoppers and commuters daily. | LocalTV
4. Kim Johnson
Kim Johnson is the Labour MP for Liverpool, Riverside, and has been an MP since December 2019. She was Liverpool’s first ever black MP. | Parliament