TIME magazine released its ‘100 Women of the Year’ project, under which it named world’s 100 powerful women who defined the last century.
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Outlining the reason for the ‘Women of the Year’ project, TIME said that for last century, Person of the Year “was almost always a man.” With this 100 Women of the Year project, It aims to spotlight influential women who were often overshadowed.
To recognize these women, TIME created 89 new TIME covers, many of which were designed by prominent artists. The publication left intact the 11 covers for women who had been named Person of the Year.
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The project has named several prominent women leaders through the century including Greta Thunberg, author Virginia Wolf, Queen Elizabeth, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist Tu Youyou, only Japanese citizen and first woman to lead the UN refugee agency Sadako Ogata and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
Former prime minister Indira Gandhi and freedom fighter Amrit Kaur have been named among world’s 100 powerful women who defined the last century. TIME named Amrit Kaur as ‘Women of the Year’ for 1947 and Gandhi for 1976.
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