Influential Women

Thanks for that. A very interesting group!
Found the site a bit slow so patience needed.
I have cast my vote but was tempted to vote for several.

It is probably Mary Berry, although she will probably not win!

I will have a think.

Spice Girls?

Our Queen
I have only lived through one reign, that of Queen Elizabeth II
Although strictly speaking she is actually Queen Elizabeth 1 of Scotland

Actually 'Elizabeth, Queen of Scots' is her correct title.

Some interesting women there but I must have led a sheltered life because I'd never heard of at least 25% of them.

Well I scrolled through looking for the woman who started writing about women's rights. Mary Wollstonecraft-but she wasn't there. Don't understand how any list can be complete without her. Her book A Vindication of the Rights of Women began it all.

If you take out all the actors, novelists and cooks, who's left?

Oh, and er models....

Marie Stopes gets my vote. Didn't even consider the actresses. Much as I love Judy Dench she has not had a great deal of influence on the lives of women

I'm guessing the woman who was the first to use the "C" word in parliament ?

I have no idea who I would vote for. There are several who I very much admire, all for very different reasons.

Shirley Williams. Is she even on that list?

Is Nancy Astor on the list?
sorry, I didn't get right through it, perhaps someone else has

Marie Stopes voted NO 12

Mary Berry @ 36

Nnacy Astor @ 39

Surprising results so far?
I'd guess that granny23 did not vote for Mary Berry!
Looked for the final 5 today but not yet announced.

What has Princess Di done for women?? FGS!

What about Germaine Greer? She did write the Female Eunuch or Barbara Castle.
I agree about Marie Stopes
But where are the female scientists? Oh silly me I suppose there aren't any. Models, Actors, Cooks and Writers- they're proper female occupations!

What about Erin Pizzey. She set up the first refuges for women ?

What about the Bletchley Park women, Rosalind Franklin( DNA) Ada Lovelace ( computing) Amy Johnson, Cressida Dick and Dany Cotton.
Then there are the politicians - Thatcher, Abbott, Mhairi Black and, with almost twice as many votes as the Queen, Nicola Sturgeon?
Not just models, actors, cooks and writers!
Check the list again.

Why no announcements on the news about the final results? Is it because the promoters (Sky News) did not get the result they wanted?

Happy International Women's Day to all. Is anyone celebrating or demonstrating? My WFI Group had a meet-up last night which I missed as I had no DH sitter.

Not just models, actors, cooks and writers! No indeed. But too many of them are...

blinko I agree with that but I was replying to trisher's specific comment that there weren't any scientists!

There was a report on STV news tonight:

stv.tv/news/politics/1409918-nicola-sturgeon-and-mhairi-black-most-influential-women/