There are so many women who are changing the world, testing their limits and making this planet a better, more united place. Time Magazine took it upon themselves to celebrate these strong individuals in their latest project "Firsts".
"Firsts" is a special multimedia project that features 46 women who broke a variety of barriers and have been the first in their field to accomplish a major milestone. Some of the names are well known, for example, Hillary Clinton, who is the first woman to win a major party’s nomination for president; Oprah Winfrey, who is the first woman to own and produce her own her own talk show; and Aretha Franklin, who is the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The images were shot over the course of the year by a 22-year-old Brazilian photographer named Luisa Dörr using an iPhone.
Take a look at the portraits of women who tested and then broke boundaries that reshaped the world for decades to come below.
#21 Kathryn Sullivan - First American Woman To Walk In Space
After 15 years at NASA, Sullivan became chief scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and later administrator of the NOAA from 2014 to 2017.
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93points
#22 Mo'ne Davis - First Girl To Pitch A Shutout And Win A Game In A Little League World Series
The Monarchs finished the Little League World Series in 2014 with two wins. Davis, now 16, has turned her attention to basketball.
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91points
#23 Kathryn Smith - First Woman To Become A Full-Time Coach In The Nfl
Smith, who began her NFL career as a game-day intern with the New York Jets, left the Buffalo Bills in January 2017.
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85points
#24 Michelle Phan - First Woman To Build A $500 Million Company From A Web Series
Phan launched the beauty subscription company Ipsy and the beauty brand EM Cosmetics.
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85points
#25 Alice Waters - First Woman To Win The James Beard Award For Outstanding Chef
Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971 and started the Edible Schoolyard Project in 1995.
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84points
#26 Nikki Haley - First Indian-American Woman To Be Elected Governor
Haley served as South Carolina’s governor from 2011 to 2017. She is the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
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83points
#27 Geisha Williams - First Latina CEO Of A Fortune 500 Company
Williams took over as CEO and president of PG&E Corp. on March 1, 2017.
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82points
#28 Hillary Clinton - First Woman To Win A Major Party’s Nomination For President
Clinton, who has served as First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State, was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2016 election.
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80points
#29 Jennifer Yuh Nelson - First Woman To Solo-Direct A Major Hollywood Animated Feature
Nelson’s Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) is the second highest-grossing film directed by a woman, only recently surpassed by Wonder Woman (2017).
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80points
#30 Lori Robinson - First Woman To Lead A Top-Tier U.S. Combat Command
In 2016, Robinson became the highest-ranking woman in U.S. military history as leader of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command.
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79points
#31 Elizabeth Blackburn - First Woman To Become President Of The Salk Institute
Blackburn, president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies since 2016, won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her DNA breakthroughs.
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77points
#32 Melinda Gates - First Woman To Give Away More Than $40 Billion
Gates, who has degrees in computer science and economics as well as business administration, worked at Microsoft from 1987 to 1996. She is a co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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77points
#33 Ursula Burns - First Black Woman To Run A Fortune 500 Company
Burns retired in 2017 as chair of Xerox, where she served as CEO from 2009 to 2016.
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77points
#34 Loretta Lynch - First Black Woman To Become U.S. Attorney General
Lynch served as U.S. Attorney General from 2015 to 2017.
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75points
#35 Mary Barra - First Woman To Become CEO Of A Major Car Company
Barra joined General Motors when she was 18 and has been its CEO since 2014.
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73points
#36 Candis Cayne - First Transgender Woman With A Major Role On Prime-Time Tv
Cayne, who started her career dancing in New York City, is known for her role on Dirty Sexy Money and her appearances on I Am Cait.
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68points
#37 Maya Lin - First Woman To Design A Memorial On The National Mall
Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial while she was an undergraduate student at Yale University.
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63points
#38 Rita Dove - First Black U.S. Poet Laureate
Dove, who won the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry in 1987, served as U.S. poet laureate from 1993 to 1995.
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63points
#39 Rachel Maddow - First Openly Gay Anchor To Host A Prime-Time News Program
Maddow hosts the Emmy-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC.
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62points
#40 Barbara Walters - First Woman To Co-Anchor A Network Evening News Program
After more than 50 years in journalism, Walters retired from her talk show, The View, in 2014.
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61points