Her new book, Swell, interweaves her own story with a history of female pioneers who accomplished remarkable feats and paved the way for future generations.
But after President Mugabe fired his vice president earlier this month, other officials were afraid he was paving the way for his wife, Grace Mugabe, to take over.
By the 1990s, he had forced many of his opponents into retirement, which paved the way for even bolder reforms, such as large-scale privatization of state-owned enterprises.
Though “resetting” relations with Russia made possible the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and paved the way for tighter sanctions on Iran, Russia's mercurial politics could always throw such progress into reverse.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The government of India says the current new agriculture reform will give expandable market access to farmers and pave the way for economically and ecologically sustainable farming.
Graduates of this amazing university have helped sequence the human genome, paved the way for the treatment of AIDS and made an MIT balloon appear in the middle of the Harvard-Yale game.
So the discovery of penicillin paved the way for chemotherapy and other types of medical treatment– and to pave the way means to make something possible.
But its argument that whale stocks has recovered sufficiently to justify the resumption of sustainable hunting was voted down. That seems to have paved the way for this decision.