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YEARPAGES 58–74 1940 Dorothea Lange 1941 Jane Fawcett
and the Codebreakers 1942 The Resisters 1943 Virginia
Hall 1944 Recy Taylor 1945 Chien-Shiung Wu 1946 Eva
Perón 1947 Amrit Kaur 1948 Eleanor Roosevelt 1949
Simone de BeauvoirPAGES 102–110 1980 Anna Walentynowicz 1981 Nawal
El Saadawi 1982 Margaret Thatcher 1983 Françoise
Barré-Sinoussi 1984 bell hooks 1985 Wilma Mankiller
1986 Corazon Aquino 1987 Diana, Princess of Wales
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner 1989 MadonnaPAGES 92–100 1970 Gloria Steinem 1971 Angela Davis
1972 Patsy Takemoto Mink 1973 Jane Roe 1974 Lindy
Boggs 1975 American Women 1976 Indira Gandhi
1977 Judith Heumann 1978 Lesley Brown 1979 Tu
YouyouPAGES 130–138 2010 Nancy Pelosi 2011 Tawakkol Karman
2012 Pussy Riot 2013 Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal
Tometi 2014 Beyoncé Knowles-Carter 2015 Angela Merkel
2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton 2017 The Silence Breakers
2018 The Guardians 2019 Greta ThunbergPAGES 50–57 1930 Martha Graham 1931 Maria
Montessori 1932 Babe Didrikson 1933 Frances Perkins
1934 Mary McLeod Bethune 1935 Amelia Earhart 1936
Wallis Simpson 1937 Soong Mei-ling 1938 Frida Kahlo
1939 Billie HolidayPAGES 84–90 1960 The Mirabal Sisters 1961 Rita Moreno
1962 Jacqueline Kennedy 1963 Rachel Carson 1964
Barbara Gittings 1965 Dolores Huerta 1966 Stephanie
Kwolek 1967 Zenzile Miriam Makeba 1968 Aretha Franklin
1969 Marsha P. JohnsonPAGES 122–128 2000 Sandra Day O’Connor 2001 Wangari
Maathai 2002 The Whistleblowers 2003 Serena Williams
2004 Oprah Winfrey 2005 The Good Samaritans 2006
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 2007 Lilly Ledbetter 2008 Michelle
Obama 2009 Malala YousafzaiPAGES 42–48 1920 The Suffragists 1921 Emmy Noether
1922 Xiang Jingyu 1923 Bessie Smith 1924 Coco Chanel
1925 Margaret Sanger 1926 Aimee Semple McPherson
1927 Queen Soraya Tarzi 1928 Anna May Wong 1929
Virginia WoolfPAGES 76–82 1950 Margaret Chase Smith 1951 Lucille
Ball 1952 Queen Elizabeth II 1953 Rosalind Franklin
1954 Marilyn Monroe 1955 The Bus Riders 1956 Golda
Meir 1957 Irna Phillips 1958 China Machado 1959 Grace
HopperPAGES 112–120 1990 Aung San Suu Kyi 1991 Anita Hill
1992 Sinead O’Connor 1993 Toni Morrison 1994 Joycelyn
Elders 1995 Sadako Ogata 1996 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1997 Ellen DeGeneres 1998 J.K. Rowling 1999 Madeleine
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