"I was never gonna even run for office. I was gonna be the brains and the strategist behind all the male candidates who I worked for. So no, girls didn't dream like that back then. And I'm hoping that my position says those days are over. This can be you."

If the past year has proven anything, it's that women have come a long way in the space program—but we still have light-years to go.

When George gets cocky while playing the sport, Will says he reminds his son, "George, Charlotte could be as good as you."

Women make up more than half of senior staffers of top-polling candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. Marie Claire talks to some of them for a look inside the campaign.

"It is not enough to simply hope for a better future. The only way forward is 'hope in action.'"

A record-breaking six women are running for president, completely changing the dynamic of the debates and the race as a whole. Anyone who has ever walked into a meeting and realized with dismay, “I’m the only woman here,” understands why.

It's not just women fighting for equality. These are the men championing women - in the office and beyond - who are battling alongside us to smash the glass ceiling.

“I think with the benefit of hindsight, it would have been better if all of us named it and shamed it earlier, but that’s a lesson learned only through having lived through it.”

A fair bit of research has been done on female competition, with two main theories emerging. When it comes to why women tend to compete against one another, two main theories emerge. Evolutionary psychology, which uses natural selection to explain our modern behaviours, says that women need to protect themselves from physical harm, and thus their ability to produce a child.