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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==
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<tr><td>[[Jane Addams]]</td><td>[[Madeleine Albright]]</td><td>[[Mary McCleod Bethume]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Carrie Chapman Catt]]</td><td>[[Hillary Rodham|Hillary Rodham Clinton]]</td><td>[[Marian Wright Edelman]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Indira Gandhi]]</td><td>[[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]</td><td>[[Emma Goldman]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Anita Hill]]</td><td>[[Dolores Huerta]]</td><td>[[Maggie Kuhn]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Golda Meir]]</td><td>[[Rigoberta Menchu]]</td><td>[[Sandra Day O'Connor]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]]</td><td>[[Rosa Parks]]</td><td>[[Alice Paul]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Frances Perkins]]</td><td>[[Eva Peron]]</td><td>[[Jiang Qing]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Eleanor Roosevelt]]</td><td>[[Phyllis Schlafly]]</td><td>[[Gloria Steinem]]</td></tr>
<tr><td>[[Daw Aung San Suu Kyi]]</td><td>[[Mother Teresa]]</td><td>[[Margaret Thatcher]]</td></tr>
</table>

==Writers and Journalists==
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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>

<tr><td>[[Anne Frank]]</td><td>[[Betty Friedan]]</td><td>[[Ann Landers]]</td><td>[[Margaret Mead]]</td><td>[[Margaret Mitchell]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Toni Morrison]]</td><td>[[Dorothy Parker]]</td><td>[[Sylvia Plath]]</td><td>[[Gertrude Stein]]</td><td>[[Barbara Walters]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]</td><td>[[Virginia Woolf]]</td></tr>
</table>

==Doctors and Scientists==
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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>

<tr><td>[[Grace Hopper]]</td><td>[[Melanie Klein]]</td><td>[[Mary Leakey]]</td><td>[[Barbara McClintock]]</td><td>[[Lise Meitner]]</td></tr>

</table>

==Entrepreneurs==
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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>

<tr><td>[[Estee Lauder]]</td><td>[[Jean Nidetch]]</td><td>[[Mary Quant]]</td><td>[[Martha Stewart]]</td><td>[[Oprah Winfrey]]</td></tr>

</table>

==Artists and Entertainers==
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<tr><td>[[Marian Anderson]]</td><td>[[Lucille Ball]]</td><td>[[Margaret Bourke-White]]</td><td>[[Maria Callas]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Isadora Duncan]]</td><td>[[Ella Fitzgerald]]</td><td>[[Jane Fonda]]</td><td>[[Greta Garbo]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Martha Graham]]</td><td>[[Katharine Hepburn]]</td><td>[[Billie Holiday]]</td><td>[[Janis Joplin]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Frida Kahlo]]</td><td>[[Dorothea Lange]]</td><td>[[Madonna]]</td><td>[[Marilyn Monroe]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Georgia O'Keeffe]]</td><td>[[Mary Pickford]]</td><td>[[Leni Riefenstahl]]</td></tr>

</table>

==Athletes==
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<tr><td>[[Nadia Comaneci]]</td><td>[[Babe Didrikson]]</td><td>[[Gertrude Ederle]]</td><td>[[Sonja Henie]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Billie Jean King]]</td><td>[[Suzanne Lenglen]]</td><td>[[Wilma Rudolph]]</td></tr>

</table>

==Pioneers and Adventurers==
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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>

<tr><td>[[Betty Ford]]</td><td>[[Helen Keller]]</td><td>[[Maria Montessori]]</td><td>[[Jane Roe]]</td></tr>

<tr><td>[[Margaret Sanger]]</td><td>[[Valentina Tereshkova]]</td></tr>
</table>

[[Category:Famous Women]]
[[Category:Lists and Indexes]]