Women have made enormous strides in the past year in the public sector. America elected its first female vice president, Kamala Harris, in November, Janet Yellen now serves as the nation’s first female secretary of the Treasury, and the 117th US Congress includes a record 143 women, or 27% of its total membership.

Women are also achieving greater prominence and power in the private sector, and particularly in the world of finance, where Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser just became the first woman to lead a major US money-centre bank. Thasunda Brown Duckett, a JPMorgan Chase executive, was recently named CEO of TIAA, the $1.3tn-in-assets financial services firm. And Stacey Cunningham heads the New York Stock Exchange, while Adena Friedman is president and CEO of Nasdaq, which owns the other major US stock exchange.