According to a new YouGov survey
YouGov is a British international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm, and their latest survey revealed the most admired women globally. Making the top of the list is former former First Lady and current best-selling author, Michelle Obama.
The survey gave us insight into the 20 most admired women in the world. The company’s methodology involves obtaining responses from an invited group of Internet users, and then weighting these responses in line with demographic information. It draws these demographically-representative samples from a panel of 5 million people worldwide including over 800,000 people in the UK.
In this year results, Michelle Obama jumps to first place, replacing Marvel’s newest super-heroine, Angelina Jolie off the top spot and down to number three. Coming in second is iconic television host Oprah Winfrey. Other influential figures who made the list are: young female education activist, Malala Yousafzai (who is the youngest person to rank on either the women’s or men’s lists) ; actress and women’s rights activist, Emma Watson; and the ruler of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II.
Not only that, but the list features a number of Bollywood stars. It includes newlywed Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone ,Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai. Sen is a new comer to the list; however, the three other women have made an appearance in the past. Other than the Indian actress, there is a host of other newcomers on the list. From China, Peng Liyuan, the Chinese folk singer and the wife of Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the China’s Communist Party, has made the list for the first time. Also, other first-timers are Chinese scientist Tu Youyou, comedian and host Ellen DeGeneres and current US First Lady Melania Trump.
The full YouGov list of the World’s Most Admired Women:
- Michelle Obama (USA, aged 55)
- Oprah Winfrey (USA, aged 65)
- Angelina Jolie (USA, aged 44)
- Queen Elizabeth II (UK, aged 93)
- Emma Watson (UK, aged 29)
- Malala Yousafzai (Pakistan, aged 22)
- Peng Liyuan (China, aged 56)
- Hillary Clinton (USA, aged 71)
- Tu YouYou (China, aged 88)
- Taylor Swift (USA, aged 29)
- Madonna (USA, aged 60)
- Angela Merkel (Germany, aged 65)
- Deepika Padukone (India, aged 33)
- Priyanka Chopra (India, aged 37)
- Ellen DeGeneres (USA, aged 61)
- Aishwarya Rai (India, aged 45)
- Sushmita Sen (India, aged 43)
- Theresa May (UK, aged 62)
- Melania Trump (Slovenia, aged 49)
- Yang Mi (China, 32)
