The International Who’s Who of Women 1997 2nd edition

Most people are aware that women are still under‐represented in most professions, but it adds insult to injury to discover that though prominent women do exist in every profession and on every continent, their achievement is then overlooked by the compilers of many biographical dictionaries. The International Who’s Who of Women seeks to redress this imbalance. It contains details of some 5,500 women and has endeavoured not only to cover a wide cross section of professions, from heads of state to fashion designers, artists to economists, but also to do this on a world‐wide basis. Although the majority of entries...