It’s About Time–Influential Women That Time Forgot

Well here it is, the opening salvo of the “It’s About Time” list of influential women that Time should have included in their list of 100 influential leaders. We need more names! Let’s make it clear that far more than 25% of the influential people on this planet happen to be women. By perpetuating the diminishing of women’s leadership and influence, Time deprives us of valuable insights and contributes to the toxic perception that the lives and work of women is less important than the contributions of men.

1. Barbara Brenner–Breast Cancer Action

2. Jennifer Drew–English activist working to highlight misogynist media portrayals of sexual assault.

3. Cathy Webster–1000 Grandmothers

4. Geena Davis

5. Leuren Moret and Helen Caldicott for raising awareness about the dangers of nuclear power and depleted uranium

6. Lilly Ledbetter

7. Amma

8. Alice Walker

9. Pema Chodron—Buddhist Monk, author

10. Kara Walker–artist

11. Jane Roberts–co-founder of 34 Million Friends of UNFPA

12. Yanar Mohammed–Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq

13. Medea Benjamin–Code Pink

14. Doris ‘Granny D’ Haddock

15. The women’s organizations in Okinanwa that are speaking out against the handling of sexual assaults committed by US military personnel

16. The Myannmar nuns and other women who marched with the monks but got almost no notice

17. Cynthia McKinney–presumptive nominee for president of the Green Party

18. Riane Eisler

19. Frances Moore Lappe

20. Malalai Joya

21. Wangari Maathai

22. Helen Thomas

23. Amy Goodman

24. Starhawk

25. My mother, your mother, and all the women who teach in classrooms everywhere–if they aren’t influential, somebody needs to explain to me the definition of that word!