Margret Thatcher comes to mind,.  When she was a rookie MP back in the 1970s she was all alone as a women in politics and fought her way to being Prime Minister  NOBODY made her life easy. She was given endless thankless tasks  and had to take insulting  jokes about her being a woman in politics.   Monty Python's ultra  left wing John Cleese ridiculed her for not staying at home  doing laundry like all good wives should.  But she did her job, as an MP and as PM.   Still today Thatcher is the great Satan to feminists rather than roll model.