Sunday, November 21, 2010
Time's Most 25 Influential Women of the Past Century
Time Magazine just released their list (among others) listing and giving full-page articles to whom they believed were the twenty-five most influential women in the past century. Clearly most of these women are Americans, but there are a few exceptions, such as Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's wife in Communist China), Mother Theresa and Inirda Gandhi. I was surprised that no American suffragists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton were on the list...what do you think?
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That is surprising! Considering what a big deal the women's suffrage movement was...
ReplyDeleteWell, Stanton died in 1902...I'm not clear if this is last century or 20th century; the video says 20th, the list says last. Either way that does seem an odd omission, not to have Alice Paul or someone.
ReplyDeleteOther women (American, I'm afraid) I would have liked to see:
Betty Friedan
Claudette Colvin
Margaret Atwood
Eva Peron?
Isabel Allende
Whoever the first female leader in Latin America was. Michelle Bachelet?
Fannie Lou Hamer
Condoleezza Rice
That's it for now.
*Mostly* American, I should have said. Also, maybe Winnie Mandela.
ReplyDeleteThe only critique I have is that some of it is a little dated. I don't really think of Marie Curie often or Virginia Woolfe.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know if there is a list of influential women from the past 50 years?
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ReplyDeleteYes, I forgot that Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902, but someone who was active (either on the American or British side of the women's suffragist movement) would have been nice.
I also agree that the list seems a bit dated and one-sided towards what I think is the 20th century. A woman that was hugely influential but remained off of the list that I can think of now is Princess Diana. *Everyone* knew who she was and what she did, but I guess she wasn't important enough to be on the list--yet there could be an endless set of women (as Abby clearly indicated).
Finally, I do not know if there is a list of the most influential women from the past 50 years, but we could always start one. :)
Agree on Betty Friedan, and Helen Gurley Brown should also be here.
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