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21. Marie Antoinette (40871 bytes)
    1: ...thumbnail|Marie-Antoinette, painted by Wagenschon shortly after her marriage in [[1770]]]]
    2: ...[[Louis XVI]] and mother of [[Louis XVII]]. She was guillotined at the height of the [[French Revolut...
    4: ...aby as "a small, but completely healthy Archduchess."
    6: ...eady had important official roles within the [[Hapsburg]] Empire.
    7: ...sidered one of the most brilliant political figures in Europe.]]
22. Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
    1: ..."1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" style = "margin-left: 0.5em"
    4: ...und:#efefef;" align="center" colspan=2 | [[Image:secalbright.jpg|Madeleine Albright]]
    7: | 64th Secretary of State
    12: | '''Predecessor:'''
    13: | [[Warren Christopher]]
23. Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
    1: ...to; a formal portrait from when she was Prime Minister]]
    3: ...sband, [[Asif Ali Zardari]], has been implicated as well, and remained in jail until [[November]] [[2...
    5: ==Early Years==
    6: ...luded active participation in various social causes.
    8: ...le of a period when her father's administration was being challenged both at home and abroad.
24. Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
    1: {| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right"
    2: |+ <font size="+1">'''The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell'''</font>
    4: | style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2" | [[Image:Kim_Campbell.jpg]]
    12: | '''Predecessor:'''
    15: | '''Successor:'''
25. Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
    1: ...o serve as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
    3: ...pg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
    5: ...nessee]] in [[Humphreys County, Tennessee|Humphreys County]].
    7: ...ildren and home and her husband practiced law and started a political career.
    9: ... elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
26. Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (2468 bytes)
    1: <div style="float:right">[[image:Sarah_Churchill.jpg]]</div>
    2: ...e|William of Orange]] to the British throne and was rewarded with an earldom.
    4: ...n in conflict with the architect, [[John Vanbrugh|Sir John Vanbrugh]].
    6: ...the prince and his family, however, even after this plan had failed.
    7: {{start box}}
27. Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
    1: ... border=1 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 align=right style="margin-left:1em"
    2: |+ <font size=+1>'''Helen Clark'''</font>
    4: |colspan=2 bgcolor=#EFEFEF align=center|[[Image:hclark....
    6: ...=2 bgcolor=#DDDDDD align=center|'''Personal Details'''
    12: ...[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
28. Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
    1: ...ellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" style="border: 1px solid; margin-left: 1em"
    3: ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan="2" | [[Image:indirag.jpg|Indira Gandhi]]
    8: ! Date of Demise:
    12: | [[Allahabad]], [[Uttar Pradesh|UP]]
    14: ! bgcolor="#efefef" colspan="2" | [[Prime Minister of India]]
29. Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
    1: ...pe death during the [[Great Purge]]s of the [[1930s]].
    5: ...ects of Bolshevism and opted to join the Mensheviks.
    7: ...inism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stalin]] in [[1930]].
    11: ...ch Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
    13: ... Soviet delegation to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]].
30. Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
    1: ...ht|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
    2: ...to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
    4: ==Born in the Russian empire==
    6: ... [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
    8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
31. Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
    1: {| id="toc" style="margin:0 0 0.5em 1em; float:right;"
    2: |+ style="font-size:larger; margin-left:1em"|'''Janet Reno'''
    4: |style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"| [[Image:janetreno.jpg|180px|Janet Reno]]
    9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
    12: |'''Predecessor'''
32. Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
    1: ...also the name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poet)]]''
    3: ... office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
    5: <table border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
    6: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
    7: ...caption><font size="+1">'''MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
33. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    1: ...White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
    3: ... an active supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
    5: ... of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
    9: ...outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
    11: ...s branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
34. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    1: ...n: 0em 1em 0em 1em; clear: right" class="toccolours"
    2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
    3: |style="background:#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
    7: &ndash; [[28 November]] [[1990]]
    9: |'''PM Predecessor:'''
35. The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
    1: ...?" The case came to be known as the '''Persons Case'''.
    5: ...phy]] (the [[British Empire|British Empire's]] first woman judge);
    6: ...'s leader, activist and first woman [[Cabinet minister]] in Alberta);
    7: ...mous [[suffragist]] and member of the Alberta legislature);
    8: ...f two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
36. Rani Lakshmi Bai (4917 bytes)
    1: ... and a symbol of resistance to [[British raj|British rule]] in India.
    5: ... horse riding, fencing and shooting, when she was still a child.
    7: ... November]] [[1853]], when Lakshmi Bai was 18 years old.
    10: ...ex the state of Jhansi under the [[Doctrine of Lapse]].
    12: ...i Jhansi nahi doongi'' (I will not give up my Jhansi).
37. Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
    1: ...oject Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony, aged 28]]
    2: ...oject Gutenberg eText 15220.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Susan Brownell Anthony]]
    3: ...rant women the right to vote in the [[United States]].
    5: ...w York|Rochester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
    7: ...for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]].
38. Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
    1: ...sant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
    2: ...eosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[writer]] and [[orator]].
    4: ...Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific writer and a powerful orator.
    5: ...lavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writing a review on this book.
    7: ...l Society, but also to India's freedom and progress.
39. Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
    3: ... usually militantly violent) and an early [[feminist]].
    5: ...'s Suffrage Societies (the [[NUWSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
    7: ...y is still preserved in the name of the [[Fawcett Society]].
    9: ...e [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations.
40. Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
    3: ... [[women's rights]] proponent, and an [[abolitionist]].
    5: ...very early 1800s. Lucretia Mott was one of the first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[abolition...
    7: ... "conscientious objector" status to [[war resistors]].
    9: ...830s]] she helped establish two anti-slavery groups.
    11: ...icult to obtain divorce, and fathers were given custody of children.

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