Top 100 Women of the 20th Century

75	Jacqueline Cochran Jacqueline Cochran's life was about risk and about triumph. A successful businesswoman and director of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots in World War II, at the time of her death Cochran held more speed, altitude and distance records than any other pilot, female or male.
76	Patricia Cornwell Author of the Kay Scarpetta mystery books and the Web Mistress's personal favourite!! pant! pant!
77	Babe Didrickson Babe won 2 Gold medals in track and field as well as a controversial 3rd, she was not afraid to be a female athlete. After getting out of Track she took up golfing, and suffered greatly for it. Her image as a "masculine" female led the press to blast her and make fun of her but she persevered and changed her image to be more feminine. She was the first women golfer to not only win titles but to win endorsements as well. She died after a long fight with cancer. She was a female athlete between the 1930's and the 1970's I believe. There have also been numerous rumors that she may have been a lesbian, but we will more than likely never know. She is the subject of numerous books and is considered to be a forerunner of women's athletics.
78	Riane Eisler Scholar and activist, she was codirector for the Center for Partnership Studies. Her first book, The Chalice and the Blade," was a carefully researched history of civilization, beginning with the earliest matriarchal societies and chronicling their demise at the hands of the patriarchy. In this book, she told it like it is - the harm still being done by the patriarchy, and what we can do to change the course we're on.
79	Rosalind Franklin She did the actual work solving x-ray structure of DNA first. (Watson and Crick get all the credit)
80	Emma Goldman Labour activist and socialist.
81	Donna Haraway Feminist and post-modernist philosopher.
82	Jackie Joyner Kersee Three time U.S. Olympic track and field Olympic gold medallist. Much sought after as a motivational speaker, she committed herself to providing support for the Boys and Girls Clubs, and other charities.
83	Emma Jung (Carl Jung's wife) Without her taking care of the mundane for him, he would never have been able to get his theories on paper. She also had some theories of her own about the Anima and Animus in the human psyche, and published papers of her own.
84	Annie Leibovitz Recognised as one of the greatest portrait photographers of her generation, Annie Lebovitz creates bold, quirky, revealing images of public figures.
85	Audre Lord Poet and black activist.
86	Juliette 'Daisy' Lowe Founder of the Girl Scouts.<
87	Shirley MacLaine Actress.
88	Anne McCaffrey Author.
89	Susan Chernack McElroy his writer has written two books, Animals as Teachers and Healers and Animals as Guides for the Soul, that address the issue of animals' sentience. Her writing and speaking are filled with love for all living beings.
90	Oleta The Washer Woman Now ... this lady is really special!
91	Sylvia Plath Her first book of poems, The Colossus (1960), demonstrated her precocious talent, but was far more conventional than the work that followed. Having studied with Robert Lowell in 1959 and been influenced by the "confessional" style of his collection Life Studies, she embarked on the new work that made her posthumous reputation as a major poet. A terrifying record of her encroaching mental illness, the poems that were collected after her suicide (at age 31) in 1963 in the volumes Ariel, Crossing the Water, and Winter Trees are graphically macabre, hallucinatory in their imagery, but full of ironic wit, technical brilliance, and tremendous emotional power.
92	May Kawena Pukui She helped write the Hawaiian-English dictionary, but her contributions extend well beyond that impressive work. She also helped to keep alive much of the Hawaiian culture that we take for granted today.
93	Hannah Raspa (Curious Wolf's Daughter) Nominated for putting up with her mother evil grin and because she and all our daughters will be among those 100 most influential women of the next century.
94	Dot Robinson She spent her life proving it's easy to speed past gender stereotypes. Or, at least it is when you're riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
95	Rell Sunn Rell's goal had been to open professional surfing to women, which she did. But during the past decade, she touched the lives of people far removed from the sand and sea. She refused to surrender her life to cancer. She continued to surf, organize surf contests for youngsters and broadcast surf reports. She also stayed alive in environmental issues. While she continued her own treatments, Rell Sunn helped other women with breast cancer face the fear and continue living and helped to educate people about the importance of early detection. Many people are alive today because she chose to live. Rell died in 1998; she was 38.
96	Margaret Thatcher I (Nrrdy) disagree veeeeeehemently with her politics but she did open the sphere to women. She was the first head of a major government - Prime Minister of the U. K.
97	Tina Turner Singer and dancer.
98	Jody Williams Nobel Peace prize winner for her work in stopping landmine production and use and starting the clean-up.
99	Vanessa Williams Talking about over-coming adversity, she one for the the books.
100	Toni Wolff arl Jung's mistress, muse, and fellow researcher. Much of his theory of the Anima came from her. In spite of being his mistress, she and Emma Jung were able to conduct an amiable relationship which bore fruit in the form of further refining the concept of Anima and Animus.
101	Virginia Woolf Literary genius.
102	Chien-Shiung Wu A particle physicist, she discovered the law of parity. Two men who did experimental work got the Nobel, she didn't. Wu's experiments led physicists to discard the concept that parity was conserved. In recognition of her contributions to atomic research and the understanding of beta decay and the weak interactions, Wu became the first woman to receive the prestigious Research Corporation Award and the Comstock Prize from the National Academy of Sciences. The Comstock Prize is given only once every five years.

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