Stories make us human. No other animal (that we know of, at least) loves and leans on stories the way humans do to understand ourselves, enjoy ourselves, and tell ourselves the way forward by looking at the road we’ve been on.

In March, our love of story gets to focus on women, for March is Women’s History Month—and the history of women is long, indeed.

In 1987, in fact, geneticists looking at mitochondrial DNA from people across the world’s major racial groups surmised that every human being on earth today is descended from a single common female ancestor who lived about 200,000 years ago. They nicknamed her “Mitochondrial Eve.” Her gift makes us all siblings in one large, very complicated family.

Typically, the history of women is not woven from stories of conquest or discovery or breakthroughs (although sometimes it is). Often, the stories women bring to our shared narrative are more about insight, resilience, courage, generosity, and grace under pressure. They are often stories about leading quietly but surely and giving without thought to getting.

We’re proud to fill the lincoln-road.com website with stories of history-making women, some whose names you may know and others who’ll be new to you. You can find them here: https://lincoln-road.com/leadership-stories/. Please enjoy them all. To read about these women leaders is to watch history being written. Their examples tell us who we’ve been—and who we can become.