100 Most Important Women of World History

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• Heads of state:
  • Cleopatra of Egypt, Elizabeth I of England, Boudicca (or Boadaceia) of the Celts, Catherine the Great of Russia, Christina of Sweden, Evita Peron, Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Corazon Aquino
• Politics
  • Barbara Jordan, Margaret Chase Smith, Eleanor Roosevelt
• Inventors and Scientists
  • Marie Curie, Madam C.J.Walker, Margaret Mead, Grace Hopper, Jane Goodall
• Women's Rights
  • British: Mary Wollstonecraft, Harriet Martineau, the Pankhursts
  • Americans: Judith Sargent Murray, Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem
• Medicine and Nursing
  • Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Dorothea Dix
• Social Reform
  • Mary Lyon, Jane Addams, Frances Willard, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Ida Wells-Barnett, Rosa Parks
• Writers
  • Aphra Behn, Lady Murasaki, Harriet Martineau, Jane Austen, the Brönte sisters, Emily Dickinson

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Author: Jone Johnson.
Title: "100 Most Important Women of World History"
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