1. Abigail Adams: “Remember the ladies!” she wrote to her husband, though John Adams and the Founding Fathers still managed to forget.
2. Jane Addams: the founder of Hull House became the second woman to win the Nobel Prize for Peace.
3. Madeleine Albright: the first woman to become Secretary of State.
4. Marin Alsop: the first female conductor of a major American symphony (the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra) and a regular guest conductor with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
5. Marian Anderson: the celebrated contralto whose open-air concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial galvanized the conscience of the country.
6. Maya Angelou: the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author who became the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost in 1961.
7. Susan B. Anthony: called “the Napoleon” of the women’s movement, she spent 60 years leading the fight for suffrage.
8. Sheila Bair: the current chairperson of the FDIC, she was one of the first government officials to recognize the problem of subprime loans.
9. Clara Barton: called “the angel of the battlefield” for her ministrations during the Civil War, she went on to found the American Red Cross.
10. Regina Benjamin: the current Surgeon General of the United States, and only the fourth woman to serve in that position.
11. Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider (counted as one): biological researchers who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Jack Szostak for the discovery of the telemoraze enzyme.
12. Elizabeth Blackwell: the first woman in the western world to earn a medical degree and practice as a licensed physician.
13. Nelly Bly: the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochran, who pioneered investigative journalism. Her exploits included going undercover as a sweat shop employee, getting herself commited to an insane asylum so she could report on it from the inside, and traveling around the world (à la Phileas Fogg) in 73 days.
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