حراء’s Reviews > Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change > Status Update

The reason was simple: “You cannot do this because no one like you has done this before.”

Ada Evans, the first female law graduate in Australia, was not allowed to practice law.

“I was ready to lead, yes but I also knew leadership involves identifying those who share your vision. I sought out people who believed in what I stood for or more often

“Changing the world isn’t possible unless you have followers - unless you have persuaded others to join the cause.”

“I do that often, she said matter of factly. Especially for someone not getting universal approval, because often that person turns out to be right.”

Lattouf describes attending a Women’s Leadershjp event and shared that McArthy squeezed her shoulder on the way to collecting her lifetime achievement award saying; “Keep going. I came to hear you speak.” What stands out to me here is how one woman is on her way to receiving empowerment and on the way, emboldens another. That’s one classy woman.

Abortion is a right under threat in Australia, and has been rolled back in the US.

McArthy joined 79 other women in signing a full page newspaper advertisement declaring they had undergone illegal abortions.

Abortion was a criminal act

Wendy McArthy accepted a teaching scholarship in Armidale