- Introduction
- Early Inspirations[rtoc]
- First Inspirations
- Harriet Tubman
- Anna Pavlova, Isadora Duncan, Maria Tallchief, and Virginia Johnson
- Helen Keller
- Margaret Chase Smith
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Maria von Trapp
- Anne Frank
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Florence Griffith Joyner[/rtoc]
- Education Pioneers[rtoc]
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Margaret Bancroft
- Juliette Gordon Low
- Maria Montessori and Joan Ganz Cooney
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Esther Martinez
- Daisy Bates
- Patsy Minl, Bernice Sandler, and Edith Green
- Ruby Bridges Hall
- Malala Yousafzai[/rtoc]
- Earth Defenders[rtoc]
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- Rachel Carson
- Jane Jacobs and Peggy Shepard
- Jane Goodall and “The Trimates”
- Wangari Maathai
- Alice Min Soo Chun
- Greta Thunberg[/rtoc]
- Explorers and Inventors[rtoc]
- Caroline Herschel and Vera Rubin
- Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper
- Margaret Knight and Madam C. J. Walker
- Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie
- Hedy Lamarr
- Sylvia Earle
- Sally Ride
- Mae Jemison[/rtoc]
- Healers[rtoc]
- Florence Nightingale
- Clara Barton
- Elizabeth Blackwell, Rebecca Lee Crumpler, and Mary Edwards Walker
- Betty Ford
- Mathilde Krim
- Dr Gao Yaojie
- Dr Hawa Adbi
- Flossie Wong-Staal
- Molly Melching
- Dr Mona Hanna-Attisha
- Vaccinators[/rtoc]
- Athletes[rtoc]
- Alice Coachman and Wilma Rudolph
- Junko Tabei
- Billie Jean King
- Diana Nyad
- Abby Wambach
- Michelle Kwan
- Venus and Serena Williams
- Ibtihaj Muhammad
- Tatyana McFadden
- Caster Semenya
- Aly Raisman[/rtoc]
- Advocates and Activists[rtoc]
- Dorothy Height and Sojourner Truth
- Ida B. Wells
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Elizabeth Peratrovich
- Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin
- Coretta Scott King
- Dolores Huerta
- The Peacemakers
- Victoria Mxenge
- Ai-jen Poo
- Sarah Braby, Gabby Giffords, Nelba Màrquez-Greene, Shannon Watts, and Lucy McBath
- Nza-Ari Khepra, Emma Gonzàlez, Naomi Wadler, Edna Chavez, Jazmine Wildcat, and Julia Spoor
- Becca Heller[/rtoc]
- Storytellers[rtoc]
- Maya Angelou
- Mary Beard
- Jineth Bedoya Lima
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- America Ferrera
- Ali Stroker
- Amani Al-Khatahtbeh[/rtoc]
- Elected Leaders[rtoc]
- Bella Abzug
- Shirley Chisholm
- Ann Richards
- Geraldine Ferraro
- Barbara Jordan
- Babara Mikulski
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Wilma Mankiller
- Michelle Bachelet
- Danica Roem[/rtoc]
- Groundbreakers[rtoc]
- Frances Perkins
- Katharine Graham
- Constance Baker Motley
- Edie Windsor
- Ela Bhatt
- Temple Grandin
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Maya Lin
- Sally Yates
- Kimberly Bryant and Reshma Saujani[/rtoc]
- Women’s Rights Champions[rtoc]
- Rosa May Billingshurst
- The Suffragists
- Sophia Duleep Singh
- Fraidy Reiss
- Manal al-Sharif
- Nadia Murad[/rtoc]
- Epilogue
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