Time 23Mar2020

1

The View
Ideas, opinion,
innovations

17 | James Stavridis
on peace in
Afghanistan

19 | Ian Bremmer on
the global economy

19 | What we can’t
find with DNA tests

2 | From the Editors
3 | Conversation
6 | For the Record

The Brief
News from the U.S.
and around the world

COVID-
As the virus goes

global, we answer
eight questions
about the public-

health threat 7
Plus: What it

means when an
outbreak becomes
a pandemic

By Alice Park 11

Battle Lines
Bernie Sanders
and a resurgent

Joe Biden split the
Super Tuesday

prizes, setting
up a two-man
race for the

Democratic
nomination
By Molly Ball 12

Roundup
Violence in Delhi
and Tennessee

tornado 14

VOL. 195, NOS. 9–10 | 2020

20s

A CENTURY

REDEFINED

BY NANCY GIBBS

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WHAT IS A WOMAN?

BY SUSAN STRYKER

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THE 100 COVERS

GATEFOLD

GLORIA STEINEM

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YEAR

PAGES 40–53 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 Beauvoir

PAGES 72–77 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 Madonna

PAGES 66–71 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

Youyou

PAGES 90–95 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 Thunberg

PAGES 34–39 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 Holiday

PAGES 60–65 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. Johnson

PAGES 84–89 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 Yousafzai

PAGES 28–33 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 Woolf

PAGES 54–59 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

Hopper

PAGES 78–83 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

Albright

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