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This year, the International Women\u2019s Day organizers are calling on Canadians to #GivetoGain<\/a> \u2013 a social media campaign that asks us to \u201cImagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that\u2019s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the years, Zoomer\u00a0magazine\u2019s covers have proudly featured women from across the globe \u2013 celebrities, performers, activists or politicians who have used their influence to help level \u2014 and broaden \u2014 the playing field for those who come after.<\/p>\n

Today, we salute some of these trailblazers by presenting their covers and their stories. Each with a quote to give you taste of the kind of hurdles they\u2019ve overcome and firsts they\u2019ve forged on their way to the top.<\/p>\n

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\u2013 SEPTEMBER 2025 \u2013<\/h5>\n

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\u201cI never felt like music singularly defined me. I had lots of things that brought me joy. Plus, success to me is looking in the mirror at the end of the day and feeling good about the choices I\u2019ve made. Have I helped people? Have I been a good person? Have I done productive things?\u201d \u2014Sarah McLachlan on staying true to her values<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2013 FEBRUARY\/MARCH 2025 \u2013<\/h5>\n

\"Isabella<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody complains about old age, but it comes with an enormous freedom. There\u2019s a lot of obligation when you\u2019re young, to impress the teacher, to make yourself financially independent. As you\u2019re older, you just say, \u2018I have to do what I want to do because I don\u2019t have much time left.\u2019\u201d \u2014Isabella Rossellini on the independence of aging<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2013 DECEMBER 2024\/JANUARY 2025 \u2013<\/h5>\n

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\u201cI went to a surgeon and had some pouches underneath my eyes taken away. But what they don\u2019t tell you, in all this greed and avarice of preying on this unattainable fountain of youth, is that it doesn\u2019t work. I still have pouchy eyes \u2013 watch The Bear.\u201d \u2014Jamie Lee Curtis on keeping it real<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2013 OCTOBER\/NOVEMBER 2024 \u2013<\/h5>\n

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\u201cMy mom said to me, \u2018You know, sweetheart, one day you should settle down and marry a rich man.\u2019 And I said, \u2018Mom, I am a rich man.\u2019\u201d \u2014Cher on confronting \u2013 and completely trashing \u2013 the stereotypes that defined her era<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2013 AUGUST\/SEPTEMBER 2023 \u2013<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cShe swooped her long blond hair to cover her face, almost like she wanted to disappear and let the music be who she was. And when she sang, her music and verses formed a sort of kaleidoscope that splintered my perception, turned it round and round, then refocused to illuminate a reality I had not dared to see. The more she sang, the more her voice became my own.\u201d \u2014Malka Marom, describing her first encounter with Joni Mitchell<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2013 AUGUST\/SEPTEMBER 2022 \u2013<\/h5>\n

\"Zoomer<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the Hall of Fame represents representation.\u00a0It represents someone who, like myself, had to pave and take and carve out her own path. It\u2019s validation\u201d \u00a0\u2014Deborah Cox on being the first Black woman induction into the\u00a0Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame<\/p>\n

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\u2013 DECEMBER 2021\/JANUARY 2022 \u2013<\/h5>\n

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\u201c[The racism has come] from both sides \u2014 never white enough, never Black enough. I never got real traction in the music business until I started singing jazz, which was seemingly a more appropriate genre for a brown-skinned girl. That still pisses me off. But songwriting keeps me sane\u201d \u00a0\u2014Molly Johnson on overcoming racism in the Canadian music industry<\/p>\n

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\u2013 AUGUST\/SEPTEMBER 2021 \u2013<\/h5>\n

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\u201cMy father was a turban-wearing Sikh all of his life. My mom wore a\u00a0bindi\u00a0[a coloured dot on the forehead] every day of her life \u2026 and wore saris. They were very\u00a0visibly\u00a0different. But they were very proud of who they were. And the upside of that is that it made me confident in being different. It did not bother me. The downside is that we did get stereotyped a lot\u201d \u00a0\u2014Monica Deol on becoming a \u201cvirtual mentor\u201d for South Asian Canadians as host of MuchMusic\u2019s \u2018Electric Circus\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2013 FEBRUARY\/MARCH 2021 \u2013<\/h5>\n

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\u201cAs an artist with the privilege of the spotlight, I felt an enormous responsibility to use that forum as a force for good, as a place from which to display the full spectrum of our humanity. I was determined to do all I could to alter the narrative about Black people \u2014 to change the way Black women in particular were perceived, by reflecting our dignity\u201d \u00a0\u2014Cicely Tyson (1924-2021) from her memoir, \u2018Just as I Am\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2013 APRIL\/MAY 2019 \u2013<\/h5>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hurricane Hazel on the cover of Zoomer\u2019s May 2019 issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the mentality back then. And that killed him\u201d \u00a0\u2014Hazel McCallion (1921\u20132023) on winning her first of 12 Mississauga, Ont. mayoral elections in 1978, beating out incumbent Ron Searle who has said that he ignored his instincts to \u201chammer the hell out of her\u201d because she was a woman<\/p>\n

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\u2013 NOVEMBER\/DECEMBER 2019 \u2013<\/h5>\n

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\u201cHow many people are there in history like Catherine the Great? Women who were complex, who were vulnerable, who were powerful, who were successful \u2014 inevitably, as an actor, you are going to be drawn to the idea of playing someone like that\u201d \u00a0\u2014Helen Mirren, 74 at the time, on playing a 33-year-old Catherine the Great for the HBO mini-series she also executive produced<\/p>\n

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\u2013 MARCH 2019 \u2013<\/h5>\n

\"Women's<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI always felt in a way the people who said, oh, I was famous because of my legs and things like that, I had feeling in a way that they were right. [But after that book,] I knew that I was completely qualified, and I could call myself a scientist\u201d \u00a0\u2014Jane Goodall on writing 1986\u2019s \u2018The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2013 APRIL\/MAY 2018 \u2013<\/h5>\n

\"Women's<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t look anything like the characters in the book.\u00a0But you know, for me personally I have long heard the call, and one of my biggest goals is that I want everyone to feel that they belong and are worth standing up for. That is one of the reasons why I am here, to carry forth that mission\u201d \u2014Oprah on being part of the cast of \u2018A Wrinkle in Time\u2019<\/p>\n

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\u2013 DECEMBER 2014\/JANUARY 2015 \u2013<\/h5>\n

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\u201cWe didn\u2019t really think about gender as much in those days. There was a job to be done, and whoever was there did it. We didn\u2019t think it was so unusual because it was just there to be done\u201d \u00a0\u2014Betty White (1922\u20132022) on being one of the first women producers in television<\/p>\n

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\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source zoomer.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year, the International Women\u2019s Day organizers are calling on Canadians to #GivetoGain \u2013 a social media campaign that asks us to \u201cImagine a gender equal world. A world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination. A world that\u2019s diverse, equitable, and inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated.\u201d Over the years, Zoomer\u00a0magazine\u2019s covers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2317973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/14-Pioneering-Zoomer-Cover-Stars.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317974,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317972\/revisions\/2317974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}