Curated playlist
21st-century American women
- Emi NakamuraEmi Nakamura found that many recorded price changes were just temporary sales.
- Rachel WeiszRachel Weisz first made headlines in 1984 by saying no. She was a teenage model who had started working at the age of 14, and she turned down an offer to star in King David opposite Richard Gere. The British actress, born on the 7th of…
- Amy FinkelsteinOregon held a Medicaid lottery in 2008, and economist Amy Finkelstein turned it into an experiment.
- Allison ShearmurAllison Shearmur broke into Hollywood by winning a campus contest.
- Lady Bird JohnsonLady Bird Johnson was born Claudia Alta Taylor, and almost nobody ever called her that. While she was still an infant, her nursemaid, Alice Tittle, remarked that the baby was as pretty as a ladybird. The comment became a lifelong name. Her…
- Esther DufloEsther Duflo was 46 when she became the youngest Nobel economics winner ever. She shared it in 2019.
- Michelle RejwanAn assistant to J.J. Abrams became a Lucasfilm executive. Michelle Rejwan got a Senior Vice President title in 2019.
- Terri IrwinTerri Irwin was reportedly hiking through Cradle Mountain in Tasmania with her two children on the morning of the 4th of September 2006. Her husband, the conservationist Steve Irwin, was killed that same morning. Today she is an American…
- Kristen KishKristen Louise Kish, born the 1st of December 1983, never set out to be on television. When the idea first reached her, she had no interest in it at all. Today she hosts one of the best-known cooking competitions in America, the same show…
- Mira NairMira Nair finished cutting Salaam Bombay! only three days before the film had its world premiere. The date was the 19th of May 1988, and the setting was the closing gala of the Cannes Film Festival. When the screening ended, the audience…
- Naomi ZackPhilosopher Naomi Zack argues a government's duty is to plan ahead for disasters.
- Anna SchwartzA Federal Reserve official told Anna Schwartz, "Regarding the Great Depression, you're right."
- Kalpana ChawlaKalpana Chawla was born in 1962 in Karnal, a city in Haryana, India, and in 1997 she was circling the Earth aboard Space Shuttle Columbia. She became an astronaut and aerospace engineer, and she was the first woman of Indian origin to fly…