A Pakistani shepherdess from the remote mountainous Shimshal Valley and a midwife who provided life-saving care during record-breaking floods last year made it to the list.

According to media reports, Pakistan’s Afroz Nama has been grazing sheep and goats in Shamshal Valley for three decades. She was the first woman in her valley who learned her traditional work and made it a profession.

BBC wrote for Afroz Nama that she learned trading from her mother and grandmother she is part of a centuries-old tradition that is now dying out in Pakistan’s Shimshal valley.“

Every year shepherdess take their flocks to pastures 4,800 feet above sea level.

Neha Makani is the second influential woman in Pakistan who was featured by BBC for her welfare work, she runs Mama Baby Funds which provides life-saving birthing kits and midwifery care to more than 15,000 flood-affected families.

Makani told BBC: “The work of midwives in communities facing climate-related disasters is vital.”

This list also includes the former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama and human rights lawyer Emil Clooney.