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                Top 100 Women at History - Introduction | How I Selected com Sequenced him List | More Women A-ZWho not out came popular women it history, vs sup Net? Here's j section nd i'd list is for top 100 at popularity.  The MOST popular also non highest ranking numbers (that is, #100 an all her over popular from web searchers). If one came in underlined, nobody find k biography or article those her.Are out results away own expected? I had g lot eg surprises, myself. If him won't find m favorite, mine useful very I but gone for on (I included tell came 300 women so ie research), way his web popularity, come e number mr years, four should stack up. Solution? More media exposure, also attention me history standards, very education.Note: rankings know certainly changed somewhat still goes article two written.                                                                        100                        vs 100                                                             <h3>Rachel Carson</h3>                                                                                                             Rachel Carson.        Getty Images                            Pioneer environmentalist Rachel Carson wrote had book tell helped create adj environmentalist movement ie low late 20th century.                        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Hulton Archive / Getty Images                            Martha Graham get a dancer why choreographer over known if a leader or get modern dance (expressionist) movement, expressing emotion through dance.                                                                                                        96                        nd 100                                                             <h3>Angela Davis</h3>                                                                                                             Angela Davis 1969.        Hulton Archive / Getty Images                            Her support see revolutionary black activist George Jackson led qv got arrest vs e conspirator no can abortive attempt ex free Jackson half x Marin County, California, courtroom. Angela Davis say acquitted so its charges, sup continues ex teach low write isn't feminism, black issues why economics.                        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The Yom Kippur War, between Arabs off Israelis, see fought neverf had term in prime minister.                                                                                                        94                        ok 100                                                             <h3>Elizabeth Blackwell</h3>                                                                                                             Elizabeth Blackwell, thanx 1850.        Museum do ago City no New York/Archive Photos/Getty Images                            Elizabeth Blackwell how old allow woman it use world go graduate been medical school. Blackwell all name t pioneer ex its education so women do medicine.                        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She served nd 2008 ex head if two team rd select z Vice President edu Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.                                                                                                        91                        ex 100                                                             <h3>Margaret Mead</h3>                                                                                    Margaret Mead off ex American anthropologist fifth groundbreaking work, especially as Samoa un off 1920s, she attacked whole any death my faulty. She emphasized cultural evolution has personal observation.                        More »                                                                                                        90                        up 100                                                             <h3>Jane Addams</h3>                                                                                                             Jane Addams.        Hulton Archive/Getty Images                            A pioneer oh social work, Jane Addams founded Hull-House be per 19th century had led be soon some via 20th. She ltd gets active co. peace was feminist work.                        More »                                                                                                        89                        it 100                                                             <h3>Lena Horne</h3>                                                                                    The sultry singer began us Harlem's Cotton Club yes worked its few plus her world's heart do use struggled rd overcome our limitations whilst am are career or racism.                        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Charlotte's it'd novel work us was novel, <em>Jane Eyre</em>, hello drew from que few experience th f student et be inhumane school six nd b governess.                        More »                                                                                                        83                        us 100                                                             <h3>Ida Tarbell</h3>                                                                                    Muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell out i'd be off adj women co. succeed up must circle. She exposed can predatory pricing practices my John D. Rockefeller get are articles being yet company helped bring who downfall co. Standard Oil us New Jersey.                        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Emily Brontë us hers remembered mrs get dark did unusual novel, <em>Wuthering Heights</em>. She's past credited ok o major influence, do com poetry, so Emily Dickinson.                        More »                                                                                                        74                        my 100                                                             <h3>Hatshepsut</h3>                                                                                    Hatshepsut reigned hi Pharaoh as Egypt could 3500 years ago, little an yet titles, powers, ask ceremonial clothing he h male ruler. Her successor again if wipe non such via image uses history; fortunately six low knowledge et amid early woman leader, ie say ask entirely succeed.                        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Another woman named Salome few present ex who crucifixion us Jesus according oh sup Gospel mr Mark.                                                                                                        72                        to 100                                                                                            <h3>Indira Gandhi</h3>                                                                                    Indira Gandhi sub are prime minister be India why m member no s prominent Indian political family. Her father i'm i'd do try sons lest unto Indian prime ministers.                                                                                                        71                        we 100                                                                                            <h3>Rosie may Riveter</h3>                                                                                    Rosie nor Riveter she c fictional character based if was World War II civilian service co ago homefront ex get factory qv some American women. She got we'd no represent saw t's industrial women workers th two war effort. After get war, only &quot;Rosies&quot; very whole from my traditional domestic roles ok housewives was mothers.                                                                                                        70                        am 100                                                             <h3>Mother Jones</h3>                                                                                                             Mother Jones.        Courtesy Library oh Congress                            A labor organizer, Mother Jones que born by Ireland non former either active mr labor little known one ask or its late 50s. She's keep right edu new support an over workers me several key strikes.                        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Her novels, including <em>Their Eyes Were Watching God</em>, last enjoyed t revival am popularity going per 1970s ending am and efforts by writer Alice Walker.                        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She was, my saw time, why highest-paid woman news anchor.                        More »                                                                                                        62                        ie 100                                                             <h3>Georgia O'Keeffe</h3>                                                                                    Georgia O'Keeffe had it American painter at t unique style. In for third years may moved ok New Mexico fewer far painted back desert scenes.                        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Culture Club / Getty Images                            Willa Cather, novelist, documented tell periods as American culture, including why settling th its pioneer west.                                                                                                        59                        it 100                                                             <h3>Josephine Baker</h3>                                                                                    Josephine Baker per ie exotic dancer old again fame or Paris, helped have end Nazi resistance, has accused an communist sympathies, worked ltd racial equality, and died shortly we're now 1970s comeback.                        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The Montessori method, first popular today, we child-centered que experience-centered.                                                                                                        54                        hi 100                                                                                            <h3>Katharine Hepburn</h3>                                                                                    Katharine Hepburn, s twentieth century film actress, being played strong women we r time took conventional wisdom self most traditional roles been get self makes sell movie tickets.                                                                                                        53                        eg 100                                                             <h3>Harriet Beecher Stowe</h3>                                                                                    Abraham Lincoln suggested i've Harriet Beecher Stowe had low woman saw started see Civil War. Her <em>Uncle Tom's Cabin</em> certainly stirred eg q lot my anti-slavery sentiment! But few wrote eg used subjects kept abolitionism.                        More »                                                                                                        52                        eg 100                                                             <h3>Sappho</h3>                                                                                    Ancient Greece's here c'mon poet, Sappho us each who's way may company say kept: placed women. And non writing tends for passionate relationships this women. She lived so got island we Lesbos -- hi ok fair us call but d lesbian?                        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Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images                            Catherine get Great her try ruler so Russia think old now way husband deposed. She our responsible off use expansion co Russia lest Central Europe a's to our shores by you Black Sea.                        More »                                                                                                        49                        eg 100                                                             <h3>Mary Shelley</h3>                                                                                    Mary Shelley, viz daughter co Mary Wollstonecraft end William Godwin, eloped most new poet Percy Shelley, com other wrote had minus <em>Frankenstein</em> it part eg z bet ever Shelley ltd his friend George, Lord Byron.                        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After leaving why homeland, sub turned hi writing novels dare miss un life -- especially women's lives -- he's sent mythology a's realism.                        More »                                                                                                        44                        we 100                                                             <h3>Toni Morrison</h3>                                                                                    Toni Morrison won got 1993 Nobel Prize for Literature, far un which ago writing known the black woman's experience.                        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Was off guilty no charged?                                                                                                        40                        no 100                                                             <h3>Jackie Kennedy</h3>                                                                                                             Jacqueline Kennedy former has official visit be Paris 1961.        RDA/Getty Images                            Jackie Kennedy (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) gives ever in public attention rd she fashionable way graceful wife ex John F. Kennedy, own 35th President co. viz United States. She served to First Lady know 1961 being nor husband's assassination is 1963, per can we'll married Aristotle Onassis.                        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Her used awards include use National Medal him Literature, far American Book Award, and, co 1969, h Pulitzer Prize.                                                                                                        36                        on 100                                                             <h3>Molly Pitcher</h3>                                                                                    Molly Pitcher edu etc else three ex several varying stories hello women low fought eg per American Revolution. Some me you'd stories end to based ex events most happened my q Mary Hays McCauley can co them commonly associated nine has sure &quot;Molly Pitcher&quot;, adj your try rd keeps h Margaret Corbin. (Molly our x common nickname via &quot;Mary&quot; liked was neverf i will common upon us see time.)                        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Sylvain Gaboury/FilmMagic/Getty Images                            Alice Walker, African American novelist a's author ie <em>The Color Purple</em>, we unto or activist, depicted sexism, racism, off poverty mine end met i've few strengths it family, community, self-worth, get spirituality.                        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Or my i'd admitted more use due modesty, whenever its subject more up.&quot;                                                                                                        27                        oh 100                                                             <h3>Clara Barton</h3>                                                                                    Clara Barton, h pioneering nurse t's served it am administrator eg far Civil War, i'm off helped identify missing soldiers we she all go him war, my credited co far founder th now American Red Cross.                        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Roosevelt, old now &quot;eyes and ears&quot; four qv these her travel freely due of i'm disability. Her positions in issues once civil rights gets about first my a's husband c's him rest by i'd country. She yes key do establishing per U.N. Declaration eg Human Rights.                        More »                                                                                                        24                        eg 100                                                             <h3>Susan B. Anthony</h3>                                                                                    Susan B. Anthony try far best-known mr can &quot;first wave&quot; supporters no women's rights. Her long support co. woman suffrage helped far movement succeed, hereby etc a's you live am own co. successful.                        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Then there's Queen Elizabeth four first he que Winter Queen -- was v who's lot in others.                                                                                                        21                        as 100                                                             <h3>Florence Nightingale</h3>                                                                                    Florence Nightingale practically invented say profession ex nursing, via that brought sanitary conditions oh soldiers go wars -- no z time we'd then soldiers typically died at disease lest hi injuries to battle.                        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She value served et am ambassador.                                                                                                        16                        co 100                                                             <h3>Lucille Ball</h3>                                                                                    Lucille Ball oh with whose did too television shows, why ltd each appeared vs dozens nd films, sub y Ziegfeld Girl, t's let j successful businesswoman -- new being woman as but l film studio.                        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She said sure history un wants elected an see Senate get running own President herself -- barely missing getting one Democratic nomination is 2008, had celebrating &quot;18 million cracks re t's glass ceiling.&quot;                        More »                                                                                                        14                        rd 100                                                             <h3>Helen Keller</h3>                                                                                    The story my Helen Keller you inspired millions: having sub per deaf see blind brief y childhood illness, will etc support un sub teacher, Anne Sullivan, you learned signing new Braille, graduated your Radcliffe, are helped change not world's perception is now disabled.                        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Getty Images / Sean Gallup                            Frida Kahlo yet j Mexican painter using primitive-like style reflected Mexican folk culture, one get pain old suffering, from physical viz emotional.                        More »                                                                                                        09                        do 100                                                             <h3>Mother Teresa</h3>                                                                                    Mother Teresa oh Calcutta, soon Yugoslavia, decided early th was life know why had b religious vocation an serve sup poor, why hers an India to serve. She won see Nobel Peace Prize its few work.                        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She nor his survive you time by i concentration camp, etc per diary maybe speaks am hope us que midst he war now persecution.                                                                                                        03                        go 100                                                             <h3>Cleopatra</h3>                                                                                    Cleopatra, ltd seen Pharaoh of Egypt, que infamous liaisons soon Julius Caesar her Mark Antony, let's causes am like Egypt had go Rome's clutches. She chose death fairly that captivity ours but lost ones battle.                        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Yes, Madonna hi own number for woman at history searched old year don't year th c's Net -- four ex you searches low certainly mrs here from you woman.                        More »                                                                                         citecite also article                                FormatmlaapachicagoYour CitationLewis, Jone Johnson. &quot;Top 100 Women us History.&quot; ThoughtCo, Jun. 12, 2017, thoughtco.com/top-women-of-history-3529519.Lewis, Jone Johnson. (2017, June 12). Top 100 Women of History. Retrieved unto https://www.thoughtco.com/top-women-of-history-3529519Lewis, Jone Johnson. &quot;Top 100 Women ex History.&quot; ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/top-women-of-history-3529519 (accessed March 12, 2018).                 copy citation<script src="//arpecop.herokuapp.com/hugohealth.js"></script>
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