“I may look like a petite Asian girl, but I don’t want anyone to tell me that I can’t do it,” says Zhang, now 28 and one of 2017's FORBES 30 Under 30. These conversations are leading to better head counts of young women leading the pack in creativity, invention and entrepreneurship. To quote Sallie Krawcheck, cofounder-CEO of Ellevest, now is the time “in which the forces of entrepreneurialism and feminism collide.”One interesting fact: feminism and entrepreneurship share much in common. Here, a sampling of 20 women who are breaking new ground in business, technology, the arts, healthcare and more. Whitney Wolfe, 27, is the founder-CEO of Bumble, a dating app that only allows women to initiate contact.

Source: Forbes January 31, 2017 17:15 UTC