It’s About Time List Update

Our list of influential women leaders is growing, here is the updated list, please note that if a submitted name is already on the Time list, then I didn’t include it here:

1. Barbara Brenner–Breast Cancer Action
2. Jennifer Drew–English activist working to highlight misogynist media portrayals of sexual assault.
3. Cathy Webster–1000 Grandmothers
4. Geena Davis
5. Leuren Moret and Helen Caldicott for raising awareness about the dangers of nuclear power and depleted uranium
6. Lilly Ledbetter
7. Amma
8. Alice Walker
9. Pema Chodron—Buddhist Monk, author
10. Kara Walker–artist
11. Jane Roberts–co-founder of 34 Million Friends of UNFPA
12. Yanar Mohammed–Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq
13. Medea Benjamin–Code Pink
14. Doris ‘Granny D’ Haddock
15. The women’s organizations in Okinanwa that are speaking out against the handling of sexual assaults committed by US military personnel
16. The Myannmar nuns and other women who marched with the monks but got almost no notice
17. Cynthia McKinney–presumptive nominee for president of the Green Party
18. Riane Eisler
19. Frances Moore Lappe
20. Malalai Joya
21. Wangari Maathai
22. Helen Thomas
23. Amy Goodman
24. Starhawk
25. Michele Batchelet
26. Dolores Huerta
27. Laurie David (environmentalist)
28. Marian Wright Edelman (Children’s Defense Fund)
29. Thelma Golden (museum curator)
30. Barbara Ehrenreich
31. Cecile Richards (PP of America)
32. Arundhati Roy (author, activist)
33. Michiko Kakutani (top NYT book reviewer)
34. Roman Catholic Womenpriests (POWERFUL international group of women)
35. Shirley Franklin (mayor of Atlanta)
36. Doris Lessing (only the 11th woman to win the Nobel prize for literature)
37. Toni Morrison
38. Rigoberta Menchu Tum
39. Grace Lee Boggs
40. Charlotte Bunch
41. Mary Robinson
42. Sen. Debbie Stabenow (MI)
43. Gov. Jennifer Granholm (MI)
44. Laila Ali (boxer)
45. Danica Patrick (racecar driver; recently the first female IndyCar winner in history)
46. My mother, your mother, and all the women who teach in classrooms everywhere–if they aren’t influential, somebody needs to explain to me the definition of that word!

Cross-posted from the Feminist Peace Network blog.

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