Boadicea : leader of men -- Joan of Arc : military heroine -- Elizabeth I : able ruler -- Margaret Fuller : first woman foreign correspondent -- Harriet Tubman : "conductor" of the Underground Railroad -- Alice Eastwood : accomplished botanist -- Nellie Bly : crusading reporter -- Alice Hamilton : early advocate for safe work environments -- Mary McLeod Bethune : founder of the National Council of Negro Women -- Mary Roberts Rinehart : war correspondent -- Jeanette Rankin : first U.S. Congresswoman -- Frances Perkins : first woman U.S. Cabinet member -- Anna O'Hare McCormick : Pulitzer Prize winning journalist -- Eleanor Roosevelt : nontraditional First Lady -- Dorothy Thompson : freedom fighter -- Amelia Earhart : famous pilot -- Margaret Chase Smith : maverick Congresswoman -- Margaret Mead : anthropologist -- Barbara McClintock : winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine -- Clare Booth Luce : power politician -- Margaret Bourke-White : photojournalist -- Maria Goeppert-Mayer : winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics -- Rachel Carson : pioneer environmental advocate -- Miriam Rothschild : English scientist -- Rita Levi-Montalcini : Italian scientific researcher -- Jacqueline Cochran : outstanding pilot -- Millicent Fenwick : legislator -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin : winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry -- Mother Teresa : missionary to the poor -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias : athlete phenomenon -- Eva Crane : leading apiculturist -- Rosa Parks : civil rights leader -- Katharine Graham : newspaper publisher -- Helen Thomas : first woman U.P.I. White House Bureau Chief -- Marguerite Higgins : war correspondent -- Rosalyn Yalow : developer of radioimmunoassay -- Flora Lewis : New York Times Paris Bureau Chief -- Elena Bonner : Soviet human rights activist -- Patricia Roberts Harris : Secretary of Housing and Urban Development -- Shirley Chisholm : first black U.S. Congresswoman -- Felice Schwartz : C.E. O. of Catalyst -- Margaret Thatcher : first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom -- Jeane Kirkpatrick : ambassador to the United Nations -- Lina Wertmuller : film director -- Althea Gibson : tennis champion -- Sarah Caldwell : first woman conductor at the Metropolitan Opera -- Violeta Chamorro : President of Nicaragua -- Barbara Harris : first woman bishop --
[cont.] Sandra Day O'Connor : first woman Supreme Court justice
Barbara Walters : television interviewer of celebrities
Dianne Feinstein : liberal Senator
Jocelyn Elders : Surgeon General
Ann Richards : Texas governor
Carla Hills : U.S. trade representative
Edith Cresson : first French woman prime minister
Jane Goodall : primatologist
Geraldine Ferraro : vice presidential candidate
Sylvia Earle : marine scientist
Barbara Jordan : legislator and orator
Barbara Mikulski : politician
Elizabeth Dole : Cabinet member
Hazel O'Leary : head of the Department of Energy
Eleanor Holmes Norton : civil rights attorney
Lynn Margulis : molecular biologist
Janet Reno : first woman U.S. Attorney General
Maxine Waters : Congresswoman
Marian Wright Edelman : Senator
Wangari Maathai : Kenyan political activist
Cynthia Moss : elephant scientist
Pat Schroeder : political gadfly
Donna Shalala : Secretary of Health and Human Services
Elizabeth Holtzman : politician
Leslie Stahl : television news reporter
Molly Ivins : political commentator
Anita Roddick : successful businesswoman
Charlayne Hunter-Gault : journalist
Marcelite Jordan Harris : brigadier general
Faith Popcorn : market forecaster
Billie Jean King : tennis champion
Cokie Roberts : political commentator
Sharon Pratt Kelly : mayor, District of Columbia
Nina Totenberg : outstanding broadcast journalist
Mary Robinson : Ireland's first woman president
Antonia Novello : Surgeon General
Wilma Mankiller : Indian chief
Diane Sawyer : investigative journalist
Connie Chung : television network news anchor
Judy Woodruff : chief Washington correspondent
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason : television writer and producer
Hillary Rodham Clinton : First Lady
Joan Lunden : television morning news anchor
Peggy Noonan : White House speechwriter
Jeana Yaeger : record-setting pilot
Benazir Bhutto : Pakistani prime minister
Anna Quindlen : New York Times columnist
Sharon Matola : zoologist
Susan Butcher : dogsledder
Maria Shriver : broadcast journalist
Katie Couric : television news anchor
Rigoberta Menchú : Nobel Peace Prize winner
Susan Faludi : author and gadfly