Oprah Winfrey is very well known as a TV host, celebrity and entrepreneur. On top of that, she is also a teacher, preacher and an advocate for women’s rights. In last year's speech at the Golden Globes, Oprah declared that “a new day is on the horizon”. She started talking to all the young girls around the world, suggesting that the old days are in the past and women will be viewed equally, appreciated as equal and treated with respect. It could be argued in her acceptance speech for a Lifetime Achievement Award that Oprah gave the women's movement a historic rally cry. As we quote Winfrey saying, “For too long women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their truth to the power of those men, but their time is up”. With Winfrey’s words and mindset, it could help change the national conversation, give women a voice and be the dawn of a new day for women.
Winfrey, a dedicated advocate for female education, funds several programs and organizations to improve the quality of life for women. She supports Women for Women International, which gives financial, educational and interpersonal help to women survivors of war, poverty and injustice. She also supports Girl Effect, which is an organization that is dedicated to eradicating poverty among young women. After discussions with Nelson Mandela, she opened the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa in 2002. She wanted a place where girls that were not lacking in spirit or mind while being economically disadvantaged can perform and develop their leadership skills. In 2016, she took advantage of the platform and offered to give her successful talk show to become an advocate for women. She uses her personal childhood experience to inspire other girls to fight for a better place for today’s girls. In addition, she fights for freedom from sexual harassment, protection against abuse, oppression for women in all industries and better wages. Her goal is to be heard and appreciated and for women to break through global gender barrier.
Oprah, being the first woman in history to own and produce her own talk show, has dramatically influenced women’s lives. She is the most influential woman ever by spending millions on educating and empowering women all across women. With the background, knowledge, wealth and her frame Oprah has, it inspired women to be strong and advocate for themselves. Throughout her life, he has been awarded many likes like the Presidential Medal of Freedom and President Barack Obama’s highest civil honor. She also addressed the discrimination in the workplace where women producers are earning less than men producer on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ and demand a raise and equality for women. Even confronted her boss and said, “Either my producer will raise or I will sit. I just won’t work. I will not work unless they get paid more money”. With her speaking up, her staff finally was given the earning they deserved. She knew if she started to speak about all the little issues like this, the gender equality in the workplace will be coming soon.
The inspiring and empowering messages that Oprah gives out can help make the world change for the better. She keeps fighting for equal rights, helping other women, bringing out her message and the truth. She encourages women to stand firm on what they believe and never let anyone else decide what their future is going to look like, and them realizing their value and seeing the possibility for themselves. During her infamous speech at the Golden Globe, she says: “I want all of the girls watching here now to know that a new day is on the horizon. And when that new day finally dawns, it will be because of a lot of magnificent women, many of whom are right here in this room tonight, and some pretty phenomenal men, fighting hard to make sure that they become the leaders who take us to the time when nobody ever has to say, 'me too' again”. This is her talking about what she knows without a doubt. It’s a series of consistent things that she said during her speech that is drawing attention and making the progress to the change that needs to happen. These are all the reasons why Oprah Winfrey is a warrior woman.