Introduction
Jane Addams
Madeleine Albright
Louisa May Alcott
Hattie Elizabeth Alexander
Marian Anderson
Maya Angelou
Susan B. Anthony
Dorothy Arzner
Lucille Ball
Clara Barton
Florence Bascom
Mary McLeon Bethune
Margaret Bourke-White
Ruby Bridges
Gwendolyn Brooks
Pearl S. Buck
Tarana Burke
Rachel Carson
Mary Cassatt
Julia Child
Shirley Chisholm
Hillary Clinton
Jacqueline Cochran
Joan Ganz Cooney
Anna Julia Cooper
Barbara Corcoran
Angela Davis
Agnes de Mille
Katherine Dunham
Ann E. Dunwoody
Amelia Earhart
Gertrude Elion
Peggy Fleming
Betty Friedan
Margaret Fuller
Althea Gibson
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Martha Graham
Temple Grandin
Carol W. Greider
Fannie Lou Hamer
Alice Hamilton
Mia Hamm
Kamala Harris
Katherine Hepburn
Billie Holiday
Bell Hooks
Grace Hopper
Dolores Huerta
Ariana Huffington
Zora Neale Hurston
Shirley Ann Jackson
Mae Carol
Emison Gish Jen
Katherine Johnson
Lois Mailou Jones
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Barbara Jordan
Hellen Keller (and Anne Sullivan)
Billie Jean King
Coretta Scott King
Maxine Hong Kingston
Juanita Morris Kreps
Emma Lazarus
Maya Lin
Eleanor Josephine MacDonald
Dolley Madison
Claire McCardell
Barbara McClintock
Margaret Mead
Maria Mitchell
Toni Morrison
Carry Nation
Michelle Obama
Sandra Day O'Connor
Georgia O'Keeffe
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Rosa Parks
Nancy Pelosi
Frances Perkins
Jeannette Rankin
Janet Reno
Mary Lou Retton
Condoleezza Rice
Sally Ride
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Susanna Rowson
Wilma Rudolph
Florence Sabin
Sacagawea
Deborah Sampson
Margaret Sanger
Bessie Smith
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Gloria Steinem
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Maria Tallchief
Amy Tan
Ida M. Tarbell
Mary Church Terrell
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Karen Uhlenbeck
Madame C. J. Walker
Barbara Walters
Randi Weingarten
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Gladys West
Phyllis Wheatley
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Oprah Winfrey
Sarah Winnemucca
Susan Wojcicki
Victoria Woodhull
Chien-Shiung Wu
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Kristi Yamaguchi
Babe Didrikson Zaharias.