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| 2207293906 | Betty Friedan | Founder and first prez of NOW. Wrote the feminine mystique | 0 | |
| 2207293907 | Helen Gurley Brown | Editor in chief of cosmo for 32 years. Wrote "sex and the single girl" | 1 | |
| 2207293908 | Edith Green | Helped pass title 9 - equal opportunity in education act oregonian congresswoman - proposed and passed equal pay act | 2 | |
| 2207293909 | Martha Griffiths | Congresswoman from Michigan - irst elected lt. Governor. Helped write anti discrimination part of 64 civil rights act | 3 | |
| 2207293910 | Sarah Palin | Gov alaska, first vice presidential nom. | 4 | |
| 2207293911 | Marguerite Rawalt | Lawyer - first female president of federal BAR association. First NOW legal council | 5 | |
| 2207293912 | Pauli murray | First black woman episcopal priest. Rosa parks in the 30s in a restaurant. Jane crow laws | 6 | |
| 2207293913 | Barbara Jordan | First african american elected to texas senate after reconstruction.first black women to give keynote at DNC | 7 | |
| 2207293914 | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | 8 | ||
| 2207293915 | Howard Smith | Virginia senator who favored racial segregation and womens rights, included sex discrimination in civil rights bill | 9 | |
| 2207293916 | Lorena weeks | Weeks v southern bell, denied application and promotion cause she was woman. Weeks eventually won case | 10 | |
| 2207293917 | Estelle Griswold | Griswold v Connecticut , legalized contraception for married couples in CT | 11 | |
| 2207293918 | Ella Baker | Civil rights activist - Naacp, sncc, | 12 | |
| 2207293919 | Fannie Lou Hamer | Voting rights activist, organized Mississippi freedom summer . Vice chair of Mississippi freedom democratic party | 13 | |
| 2207293920 | Robin Morgan | Wrote "sisterhood is powerful" that helped sparked second wave of feminism. New york radical women, WITCH and feminist women's health network | 14 | |
| 2207293921 | Gloria Steinmen | Founder of Ms. Magazine. Wrote After black power, women's liberation. Co founded womens media center | 15 | |
| 2207293922 | Phyliss Schlafly | Anti feminist and opposed to equal rights ammendment | 16 | |
| 2207293923 | Anita Bryant | Oklahoma beauty paegant winner, anti LGBT activist, singer | 17 | |
| 2207293924 | Sherri Finkbine | Actress who accidentally took pills to cause her baby to deform, caused abortion controversy. Had to go to Sweden to get abortion. Shifted public opinion on abortion | 18 | |
| 2207293925 | Mary Tyler Moore | Popular actress with liberal/moderate reputation in 70s but moved more centrist as she got older. Recruited by gloria steinem | 19 | |
| 2207293926 | Billie Jean King | Tennis player who competed against riggs in battle of the sexes | 20 | |
| 2207293927 | Jane Fonda | Popular actress and stout vietnam war protestor. Photographed in vietcong bomber. | 21 | |
| 2207293928 | Bella Absug | American lawyer and congresswoman and leader of womens movement. Founder of womens political caucus | 22 | |
| 2207293929 | Sandra Day O'Connor | 23 | ||
| 2207293930 | Anita Hill | Accused clarence thomas of sexual harassment | 24 | |
| 2207293931 | Lily Ledbetter | Plantiff in employment discrimination case against goodyear | 25 | |
| 2207293932 | Hillary Clinton | First woman senator from new york | 26 |