Frida Kahlo:

This Mexican artist survived childhood polio and later a bus accident that led to seven operations. She began painting to escape her lifelong pain and is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

Maya Lin

As the designer of two of America's most powerful monuments - The Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, and The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., Lin has distinguished herself as the most acclaimed site-specific architect of contemporary America. Because of her concern for environmental issues, she uses recycled, living, or natural materials and focuses on sustainable and site-sensitive design solutions.

Margaret Mead

This anthropologist who studied Samoan culture caused society to rethink how it looked at adolescence.

Mother Theresa

Founder of a religious group of nuns in Calcutta, India, Mother Theresa devoted her life to aiding sick and poor people throughout the world.

Ellen Ochoa

As an astronaut and researcher of advanced optical information systems, Ochoa flew her first shuttle mission in 1993 as a Mission Specialist with the Discovery crew, conducting atmospheric and solar studies in order to understand better the effect of solar activity on the Earth's climate and environment. The first Hispanic woman to be named an astronaut, she has logged over 500 hours in space.

Sandra Day O'Connor

As the first woman appointed to the position of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, she carved a place for women at all levels of the legal profession.

Rosa Parks

When she refused to give up her seat to a white person on a crowded bus, Rosa Parks set in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a cornerstone of the Civil Rights movement. She has since been a strong advocate for human rights issues.

Esther Peterson

Peterson worked throughout her life for consumer protection, improved labour conditions for American workers, and equal opportunity for American women. Because of her work, working women have a legal right to equal pay and food labels by law must now list exact amounts of ingredients and the nutritional content. She served four U.S. Presidents in various capacities, including Assistant Secretary of Labour, and Vice-Chairperson of the first Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.

Dr. Sally Ride

The first American woman in space was also the youngest American astronaut ever to orbit Earth.

Eleanor Roosevelt

As a champion of human rights, she strove to further women's causes as well as the causes of black people, poor people, and the unemployed.

Sacagawea:

She was the interpreter for Lewis and Clark during the U.S. government's first exploration of the Northwest. Sacagawea's role was to help negotiate safe and peaceful passages through tribal lands.

Margaret Sanger

Founder of the birth control movement in the United States, Sanger also started the organisation that became the future Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Sappho (circa 625 B.C.)

This Greek poet is considered one of the most important in Western civilisation. In addition to creating the "Sapphic stanza," which consists of three long lines of poetry coupled with one short line, she also invented an instrument, the 21-string lyre.

Muriel F. Siebert

Her advanced understanding of banking and finance led Muriel Siebert to the first seat to be owned by a woman on the New York Stock Exchange. She created the Siebert Philanthropic Programme, which lets investors help charities in their own communities.

Lillian Smith

Honoured in 1956 by the women who organised the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Smith was one of the nation's strongest European-American voices to expose the vicious ways in which racism destroys the human spirit. She used her stellar writing talent and class privilege to expose and challenge racism. Smith co-published the literary magazine South Today to help give voice to progressive black and white southern writers.

Margaret Thatcher

This politician was the first woman in European history to be elected Prime Minister. Known for her conservative views, Margaret Thatcher was also the first British Prime Minister to win three consecutive terms in the 20th century.

Harriet Tubman

This abolitionist was born a slave. She eventually became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, a system developed by a secret group of free blacks and sympathetic whites to help runaway slaves get to free northern states. Harriet Tubman led more than 300 slaves to freedom.

Oprah Winfrey

An actress and the host of a highly successful talk show, Oprah Winfrey has won several Emmy Awards. She has started her own TV production company and invested in media projects. She has also been a spokesperson for women's health and family issues and for the prevention of child abuse.

Victoria Woodhull:

First woman to campaign and be nominated for the U.S. Presidency. She was nominated by the Women's National Equal Rights Party. Woodhull and her sister were also the first two female stockbrokers on Wall Street.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias:

One of the greatest athletes of all time, Zaharias won track and field gold medals at the 1932 Olympics, played professional basketball, and was a founding member of the Ladies Professional Golf Association.

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