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- Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
19: ! Political party:
57: ...itical power. As a woman occupying the highest position of government in, what was at that time, a ver...
59: ...party leader, and thus Prime Minister of India. Initially she was dubbed as ''goongi gudiya'' ([[Hindi...
63: ...[[cabinet]]s, centralizing her own personal authority in a way her predecessors never had.
65: ...ress party following the November [[1969]] split within the governing [[Indian National Congress]]. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...She is currently the chairwoman of the ruling [[United Progressive Alliance]] in the [[Lok Sabha]].
7: ...a Gandhi]] (born [[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
9: ==Role in Indian politics==
11: ...r foreign birth, her declining to take up Indian citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her l...
13: ...n government]] which was subsequently named the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
1: ... [[1943]]) is a [[Finland|Finnish]] lawyer and politician. She has been the [[President of Finland]] s...
3: Halonen graduated from the [[University of Helsinki]] in 1968 and has a [[Master of Laws...
5: ...right|250px|President Tarja Halonen on a state visit to Brazil]]
6: ==Highlights of political career==
9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]] - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...8]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ...house, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...ng [[Sinn F驮]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩr...
8: ...ster Rising]] and was sentenced to death by the British government. The sentence was commuted to life ...
10: ...d to the [[House of Commons]]. However, in line with Sinn F驮 policy, she declined to take her seat ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [...
2: ...srael after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
6: ...da looked up to Shayna. Her father left for the United States in [[1903]], and the rest of the family ...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
14: ... She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]
27: ... post. She was nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[Februa...
30: Reno's father, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three yea...
32: ...56]] Reno enrolled at [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York]], where she majored in [[chemistry... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...e]] in the administration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is t...
29: ...ary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomin... - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
23: ...Bourke]], was knighted by [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]] after a career as ...
25: ...lliam Binchy]], and, the current holder of the position, abortion rights campaigner [[Ivana Bacik]].)
27: ...rriage to a [[Protestant]] student caused a rift with her parents, although the rift was eventually ov...
31: ...tor she served on the following parliamentary committees: - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
21: |'''[[Political Party]]:'''
27: ...on|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...h the [[United States]], and formed a close bond with [[Ronald Reagan]]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[...
31: ...rgaret Thatcher assert that [[Thatcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
33: ...'; since then her direct political work has been within the [[House of Lords]] and as head of the That... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...ol]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the publi...
5: ... ten years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sange...
7: ...hould Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked s...
9: ...e also contributed articles on health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper,...
11: ...ed the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Shoul... - Flora Tristan (1707 bytes)
5: ... July 16, 1834. Though she never secured the inheritance that brought her there, Tristᮠwrote a trave... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...e of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; sh...
8: ...magination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of M...
12: ...and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury gro...
7: ...stently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among othe...
9: ...els and essays as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was sel...
11: ...e dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...f life through the art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, pres... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...906]] - [[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
4: ...]]. There, she used her looks and driving personality to obtain a job at a prestigious salon in [[Sak...
6: ...ucation, Ms. Cochran had a quick mind and an affinity for business and the investment proved a lucrati...
8: ... savvy marketer who recognized the value of publicity for her business. Calling her line of cosmetics ...
10: ...about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...[[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
7: She entered graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], re...
11: ...ors said to appear in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of t...
15: ... the leading social anthropologists who were recruited by the U.S. Government for war-related research...
18: ...ed with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come. - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1910]]–[[July 29]], [[1994]]) was a British [[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [...
3: ...yrightKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in t...
5: ...in]], [[ferritin]], [[tobacco mosaic virus]], [[vitamin B12]], and [[insulin]]. This latter achieveme...
7: ...n [[1965]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchil...
13: ===Obituary notices=== - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ... been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the [[Amer...
6: ...ung Clara was home-educated and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers and sisters were ...
8: As a child, Clara was a shy and retiring little girl, but at the age of 11, when her brother b...
12: ...unity's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools i...
14: ... she was appointed to a job as a clerk in the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Offic... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ... [[1910]]), who came to be known as ''The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nu...
7: ...r older sister (named [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-...
9: ...was particularly concerned with the appalling conditions of medical care for the legions of the poor a...
13: ...sed by the quality of medical care and by the commitment and practises of the sisters.
17: ...vinced that marriage would interfere with her ability to follow her calling to nursing, Nightingale co... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...Bolena.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La S...
3: ...e combined an impeccable [[bel canto]] technique with great dramatic gifts, making her the most famous...
5: ... under the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and perfor...
7: ...rdings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wo...
9: ...] tour with the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely ... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...oice to be a natural wonder. She has won 16 competitive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards fr...
6: ...ular songs, most notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted...
8: ...ntic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ...h her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer"'' in 1968.
12: Among her most successful hit singles from this era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ...
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