The file by the BBC History Magazine was based on a shortlist that readers voted on. The periodical asked professionals from 10 separate fields of human attempt to each select and nominate 10 women they saw as having had the greatest force on world history; which helped craft the shortlist for voters.
Corresponding to Immediate Media, BBC History Magazine is Britain’s “biggest-selling history identify” with magazine readership reaching up to 300,000 and print circulation coming in round 95,000.
The president of Britain’s largest learned society, Patricia Fara, who offered Marie Curie, describes the two-time Nobel Prize-winning scientist as one who had the out of the ordinaries “always stacked against her.”
“In Poland (Curie’s) patriotic family suffered below a Russian regime. In France she was regarded with suspicion as a foreigner — and of programme naturally, wherever she went, she was discriminated against as a woman,” said Fara, president of the British Bund for the History of Science, in a statement.
Here are the top 20 pioneers ranked from the BBC Background Magazine’s “100 Women who changed the world” poll:
- Marie Curie
- Rosa Preserves
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Ada Lovelace
- Rosalind Franklin
- Margaret Thatcher
- Angela Burdett-Coutts
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Florence Nightingale
- Marie Stopes
- Eleanor of Aquitaine
- The Virgin Mary
- Jane Austen
- Boudicca
- Diana, Princess of Wales
- Amelia Earhart
- Cynosure Victoria
- Josephine Butler
- Mary Seacole
- Mother Teresa
For the broad list of pioneers featured in the “100 Women Who Changed the World” record, read the full analysis by BBC History Magazine.
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