20 Women Who Made History By Bending Gender Roles

15. Helen Thomas

#NAME 20 Women Who Made History By Bending Gender Roles

A staple in the White House Correspondent’s Room for almost half a century, Helen Thomas reported on the regimes of 11 Presidents – from Dwight D. Eisenhower all the way through to Barack Obama. The first female officer of the National Press Club and first female member and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, Thomas was truly a glass-ceiling-shattering journalist.