International Women’s Day 2025: Most Admired Women – GeoPoll

To mark Worldwide Girls’s Day, GeoPoll performed a research on gender equality in Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria within the first week of March 2025. We revealed an preliminary report of the analysis findings, and are happy to launch extra findings on this observe up. This observe up report highlights most admired girls.

Most Ceaselessly Named Girls

The chart beneath shows the 20 girls named most incessantly in response to the open-ended survey query throughout nations and genders. The numbers within the chart point out what number of occasions every lady was named per nation.

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“Mom” as a Dominant Determine

The survey revealed that, Mom emerged as probably the most incessantly talked about response by a major margin—about one in each 4 individuals selected their mom. This dominance highlights a strong private connection: moms are sometimes seen as caregivers, position fashions, and key figures in shaping values, aspirations, and life paths.

Public Figures within the Second Tier

Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, and Wangari Maathai—exhibit that sure world icons resonate strongly throughout totally different areas. Every of those girls has achieved vital acclaim or management of their respective domains:

• Oprah Winfrey: An influential media mogul, philanthropist, and speak present host.
• Michelle Obama: Former First Girl of the USA, identified for her advocacy on schooling, well being, and ladies’s empowerment.
• Ngozi Okonjo Iweala: An economist and worldwide improvement knowledgeable, serving because the Director-Common of the World Commerce Group (WTO).
• Wangari Maathai: A Kenyan environmental activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Their visibility, achievements, and advocacy for varied social causes doubtless contributed to their sturdy attraction amongst survey respondents.

Broader Vary of Position Fashions

Past these prime figures, a various group rounds out the highest 20: political leaders (e.g., Kamala Harris, Martha Karua), activists (e.g., Dora Akunyili, Yaa Asantewaa), entertainers (e.g., Beyonce, Lupita Nyong’o), and private relations (“My spouse,” “Myself”).

This selection exhibit that admiration is multifaceted, with respondents valuing every thing from private relationships and on a regular basis heroes to distinguished public figures who encourage on a broader social or world scale.

• Private Relations: Entries like “My spouse” and “Myself” replicate the intimate nature of position fashions for some respondents. In these situations, admiration stems from shut contact, day by day assist, or private progress.
• Notable Leaders & Entertainers: Politicians, activists, and cultural icons resonate as a consequence of their public platforms, accomplishments, and the methods they champion social, political, or cultural change.

Throughout the nations surveyed, “Mom” overwhelmingly emerged because the determine each women and men admire most. Under is a concise breakdown of probably the most admired girls in every nation, illustrating how private and cultural icons resonate throughout totally different contexts.

Ghana

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Kenya

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Nigeria

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Conduct Analysis on Girls’s Rights in sub-Saharan Africa

The world is making good progress in direction of attaining gender equality. Nations in Africa are taking vital strides in implementing authorized adjustments that promote gender equality. This survey coated a number of the challenges and perceptions of gender equality in three African nations. In the end, extra information masking all populations is required to pinpoint the place the true challenges lie and set about bettering the scenario.

GeoPoll is skilled in conducting analysis with girls in hard-to-reach areas across the globe. If you’re trying to conduct analysis with a feminine viewers in rising markets, battle zones, or hard-to-reach areas, please contact us at this time.

GeoPoll performed this Fast Survey by the cell software mode. The survey focused random female and male respondents of all ages in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria the week main as much as Worldwide Girls’s Day. To be taught extra in regards to the methodology we utilized in conducting this survey, and study our capabilities in numerous elements of the world, please contact us.