100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century

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'''100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century''', a book published by the Ladies' Home Journal with a foreword by Barbara Walters
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'''100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century''', a book published by the Ladies' Home Journal with a foreword by Barbara Walters.  I've extracted the table of contents of the book below.
  
 
==Activists and Politicians==
 
==Activists and Politicians==
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==Writers and Journalists==
 
==Writers and Journalists==
*[[Maya Angelou]]
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<table border=3>
*[[Hannah Arendt]]
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<tr><td>[[Maya Angelou]]</td><td>[[Hannah Arendt]]</td><td>[[Rachel Carson]]</td><td>[[Agatha Christie]]</td><td>[[Simone de Beauvoir]]</td></tr>
*[[Rachel Carson]]
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*[[Agatha Christie]]
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<tr><td>[[Anne Frank]]</td><td>[[Betty Friedan]]</td><td>[[Ann Landers]]</td><td>[[Margaret Mead]]</td><td>[[Margaret Mitchell]]</td></tr>
*[[Simone de Beauvoir]]
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*[[Anne Frank]]
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<tr><td>[[Toni Morrison]]</td><td>[[Dorothy Parker]]</td><td>[[Sylvia Plath]]</td><td>[[Gertrude Stein]]</td><td>[[Barbara Walters]]</td></tr>
*[[Betty Friedan]]
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*[[Ann Landers]]
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<tr><td>[[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]</td><td>[[Virginia Woolf]]</td></tr>
*[[Margaret Mead]]
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</table>
*[[Margaret Mitchell]]
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*[[Toni Morrison]]
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*[[Dorothy Parker]]
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*[[Sylvia Plath]]
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*[[Gertrude Stein]]
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*[[Barbara Walters]]
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*[[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]
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*[[Virginia Woolf]]
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==Doctors and Scientists==
 
==Doctors and Scientists==
*[[Virginia Apgar]]
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<table border=4>
*[[Helen Caldicott]]
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<tr><td>[[Virginia Apgar]]</td><td>[[Helen Caldicott]]</td><td>[[Marie Curie]]</td><td>[[Rosalind Franklin]]</td><td>[[Jane Goodall]]</td></tr>
*[[Marie Curie]]
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*[[Rosalind Franklin]]
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<tr><td>[[Grace Hopper]]</td><td>[[Melanie Klein]]</td><td>[[Mary Leakey]]</td><td>[[Barbara McClintock]]</td><td>[[Lise Meitner]]</td></tr>
*[[Jane Goodall]]
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*[[Grace Hopper]]
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</table>
*[[Melanie Klein]]
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*[[Mary Leakey]]
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*[[Barbara McClintock]]
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*[[Lise Meitner]]
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==Entrepreneurs==
 
==Entrepreneurs==
*[[Coco Chanel]]
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<table border=5>
*[[Julia Child]]
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<tr><td>[[Coco Chanel]]</td><td>[[Julia Child]]</td><td>[[Elsie de Wolfe]]</td><td>[[Katharine Graham]]</td><td>[[Ruth Handler]]</td></tr>
*[[Elsie de Wolfe]]
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*[[Katharine Graham]]
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<tr><td>[[Estee Lauder]]</td><td>[[Jean Nidetch]]</td><td>[[Mary Quant]]</td><td>[[Martha Stewart]]</td><td>[[Oprah Winfrey]]</td></tr>
*[[Ruth Handler]]
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*[[Estee Lauder]]
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</table>
*[[Jean Nidetch]]
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*[[Mary Quant]]
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*[[Martha Stewart]]
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*[[Oprah Winfrey]]
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==Artists and Entertainers==
 
==Artists and Entertainers==
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<table border=6>
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<tr><td>[[Marian Anderson]]</td><td>[[Lucille Ball]]</td><td>[[Margaret Bourke-White]]</td><td>[[Maria Callas]]</td></tr>
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<tr><td>[[Isadora Duncan]]</td><td>[[Ella Fitzgerald]]</td><td>[[Jane Fonda]]</td><td>[[Greta Garbo]]</td></tr>
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<tr><td>[[Martha Graham]]</td><td>[[Katharine Hepburn]]</td><td>[[Billie Holiday]]</td><td>[[Janis Joplin]]</td></tr>
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<tr><td>[[Frida Kahlo]]</td><td>[[Dorothea Lange]]</td><td>[[Madonna]]</td><td>[[Marilyn Monroe]]</td></tr>
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<tr><td>[[Georgia O'Keeffe]]</td><td>[[Mary Pickford]]</td><td>[[Leni Riefenstahl]]</td></tr>
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</table>
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==Athletes==
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<table border=7>
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<tr><td>[[Nadia Comaneci]]</td><td>[[Babe Didrikson]]</td><td>[[Gertrude Ederle]]</td><td>[[Sonja Henie]]</td></tr>
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<tr><td>[[Billie Jean King]]</td><td>[[Suzanne Lenglen]]</td><td>[[Wilma Rudolph]]</td></tr>
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</table>
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==Pioneers and Adventurers==
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<table border=9>
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<tr><td>[[Nancy Brinker]]</td><td>[[Helen Gurley Brown]]</td><td>[[Diana Spencer|Diana, Princess of Wales]]</td><td>[[Amelia Earhart]]</td></tr>
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<tr><td>[[Betty Ford]]</td><td>[[Helen Keller]]</td><td>[[Maria Montessori]]</td><td>[[Jane Roe]]</td></tr>
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<tr><td>[[Margaret Sanger]]</td><td>[[Valentina Tereshkova]]</td></tr>
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</table>
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[[Category:Famous Women]]
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[[Category:Lists and Indexes]]

Latest revision as of 00:19, 31 July 2008

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