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Time March 16–23, 2020 Golda Meir 1956 | ISRAEL’S ESSENTIAL EMISSARY Born in Kyiv and raised in Milwaukee, Golda Meir embraced t ...

1959 Grace Hopper Programming pioneer Grace Hopper graduated from Yale in 1934 with a mathematics Ph.D., and her service in the ...

Time March 16–23, 2020 1960s 1961 Rita Moreno Breaking Hollywood barriers Rita Moreno’s 1961 breakout role in West Side Story al ...

1962 | DEFINING A NEW AMERICAN ERA JACQUELINE KENNEDY BY NATALIE PORTMAN The youngesT FirsT Lady in nearLy 80 years, JacqueLine ...

1963 Rachel Carson Force of nature There was a time when a book could change the world. Biologist and writer Rachel Carson’s ear ...

“sí, se puede.” We hear iT aT proTesTs and see iT written on signs at marches, and it became the rallying cry of Obama supporter ...

Time March 16–23, 2020 1960s 1966 Stephanie Kwolek Inventor of resilience Twice in chemist Stephanie Kwolek’s life, she refused ...

JOHNSON WAS A FIXTURE IN NEW YORK CITY FOR DECADES 1968 Aretha Franklin Queen of soul R&B may be the secular child of gospel ...

Time March 16–23, 2020 1970s STEINEM, CENTER, AT THE WOMEN’S STRIKE FOR EQUALITY IN AUGUST 1970 1970 Gloria Steinem Women’s-libe ...

1972 Patsy Takemoto Mink Leveling the playing field Title IX, the civil rights law passed in 1972 that prevents sex discrimina- ...

Time March 16–23, 2020 1970s 1973 Jane Roe The right to choose Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court deci- sion that legalized abortion ...

1970s American Women 1975 PERSON OF THE YEAR | MAKING WAVES The cover of TIME’s Jan. 5, 1976, issue was unprecedented. It featur ...

Time March 16–23, 2020 1970s 1976 Indira Gandhi Imperious leader In 1976, the “Empress of India” had become India’s great author ...

1970s 1979 Tu Youyou Curing malaria Tu Youyou’s first triumph over an in- fectious disease was her recovery from tuberculosis as ...

Time March 16–23, 2020 1980s 1981 Nawal El Saadawi For a more equal Egypt For Egyptian psychiatrist, feminist and novelist Nawal ...

1982 | IRON LADY MARGARET THATCHER BY BILLY PERRIGO The decades afTer The second World War were a chastening time for the U.K. T ...

1983 Françoise Barré-Sinoussi Discovering HIV Françoise Barré-Sinoussi didn’t plan on becoming a scientist; she fell into her ca ...

1985 | REVITALIZING NATIVE COMMUNITIES WILMA MANKILLER BY ADRIENNE KEENE in 1985, Wilma mankiller paved The Way for female leade ...

GRIFFITH JOYNER CELEBRATES HER 200-M WORLD RECORD AT THE 1988 OLYMPICS 1987 | THE PEOPLE’S PRINCESS DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES BY ...

1989 | PROVOCATEUR MADONNA BY STEPHANIE ZACHAREK By 1989, madonna, The scrappy per- former born Madonna Louise Ciccone, was alre ...