without these women the world would be a
much much different place welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 women’s
activists for this list we’ve chosen
those women who pioneered the women’s
rights movement and fought for women’s
issues and equality between the sexes
throughout their lives in too many
places women are treated not as full and
equal human beings with their own rights
and aspirations but as lesser creatures
undeserving of the treatment and respect
accorded to their husbands their fathers
and their sons click number 10 Margaret
Sanger tonight we go after the story of
the woman who violated convention and
bucked powerful opposition to lead the
birth control movement in America as a
nurse among poor immigrant women Sanger
saw the toll that poverty and unplanned
children took on them that moved her to
establish the first birth control clinic
in the United States in 1916 in 1921 she
founded the American birth control
League which evolved into today’s
Planned Parenthood Sanger’s activism
brought major changes to an issue of
great importance to the women’s movement
they don’t know love they don’t know
marriage they know nothing about
bringing up children already the
marriage problems of life and yet they
speak to people as if they were God
number 9 Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft played a significant role
in establishing the very concept of
women’s rights in 1792 the British
writer wrote the landmark a vindication
of the Rights of Woman which decried
sexual double standards common in the
era her advocacy of the Equality of
education or that men be held to the
same standard of fidelity as women was
seen as revolutionary number eight
Emmeline Pankhurst in the 19th and early
20th centuries the fight for women’s
right to vote took on a new caste in
Britain suffragettes like Emmeline
Pankhurst believed in deeds not words
they smashed windows set fires and
accosted police too
at their message across Pankhurst and
her allies were thrown in jail for their
actions but it paid off in 1928 the year
of her death
British women obtained full voting
rights number seven Hillary Clinton
women are still the majority of the
world’s poor the uneducated the
unhealthy the unfed numerous u.s. first
ladies like Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty
Ford have advanced women’s issues
Hillary Clinton has carried on that
tradition by moving beyond her role as
the president’s wife to become a u.s.
senator a Secretary of State and a
contender for the office of President
among her accomplishments is the
establishment of the position of United
States Ambassador at large for global
women’s issues which ensures a place for
women’s issues on the u.s. foreign
policy table let’s keep fighting for
freedom and equality let’s keep fighting
for full participation and let’s keep
telling the world over and over again
that yes women’s rights are human rights
and human rights are women’s rights once
and for all thank you all so much number
six
Simone de Beauvoir it can be argued that
the modern women’s movement kicked into
high gear after the publication of de
Beauvoir the second sex in 1949 in this
book the French philosopher laid out in
detail the exact dimensions of
inequality and oppression which women
faced her work served as a blueprint for
many of the women’s activists who
followed number 5 Betty Ford an American
Betty Ford an is one of those activists
who is indebted to de Beauvoir her 1963
book The Feminine Mystique
appeared just as the 1960s was evolving
into a decade of change women’s
activists embraced its message in a big
way
Verdun also founded the National
Organization for Women organized the
national women’s strike for equality and
helped establish the National Women’s
Political caucus that I am free to wear
a bra not to wear bras my business and
yours you know but it’s the media that
want to dismiss
it’s a joke number four Lucy Stone the
first woman from Massachusetts to earn a
college degree stone was part of the
first national women’s rights convention
in 1850 as well as the woman’s national
oil league
she also founded woman’s journal which
was hugely influential in spreading
women’s rights messages number three
Gloria Steinem arguably the most famous
women’s activist of the 20th century
Steinem helped carry the 1960s women’s
liberation movement from the
counterculture to the mainstream
co-founder of MS magazine she worked
with Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan to
establish the Women’s Media Center in
2005 she has also been a vocal opponent
of pornography considering it degrading
to women and a strong advocate for
greater participation by women in
politics I feel lucky I feel happy I
feel just amazingly gifted that I can do
what I love and care about
number two susan b anthony as the name
most identified with american women’s
activism the dynamic Anthony made the
woman’s right to vote her life’s goal
she founded the revolution with
Elizabeth Cady Stanton which was a
journal that featured what could be her
motto men their rights and nothing more
women their rights and nothing less a
tireless speaker and organizer she died
before her dream of a woman’s right to
vote came true however the 19th
amendment granting that right is also
known as the Anthony Amendment before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions I’m very grateful for
the Welcome which you have extended and
very grateful for the opportunity to
learn which is my real reason for coming
to this country through it all Betty
Ford faced the challenges of life with
the grace and poise of a dancer they
only can shoot a body but they cannot
shoot my dreams and I think my dreams
are living
number one Elizabeth Cady Stanton not as
well-known now as she was in the 19th
and early 20th centuries Stanton was a
passionate advocate for equal rights she
was the driving force behind the 1848
Seneca Falls convention and subsequent
women’s rights conventions although an
ardent supporter of the right to vote
she was equally focused on issues such
as birth control property rights divorce
employment and custody issues her book
The Woman’s Bible and her many fiery
speeches inspired countless women to
believe they had a place in the world
and not just the household do you agree
with our picks
what ardent activists would you have put
on the list for more enthralling top
tens published daily be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com to ensure
that people everywhere women and men
alike finally have the opportunity to
live up to their own god-given potential
so let’s go forth and make it happen
thank you
[Music]
you
much much different place welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 women’s
activists for this list we’ve chosen
those women who pioneered the women’s
rights movement and fought for women’s
issues and equality between the sexes
throughout their lives in too many
places women are treated not as full and
equal human beings with their own rights
and aspirations but as lesser creatures
undeserving of the treatment and respect
accorded to their husbands their fathers
and their sons click number 10 Margaret
Sanger tonight we go after the story of
the woman who violated convention and
bucked powerful opposition to lead the
birth control movement in America as a
nurse among poor immigrant women Sanger
saw the toll that poverty and unplanned
children took on them that moved her to
establish the first birth control clinic
in the United States in 1916 in 1921 she
founded the American birth control
League which evolved into today’s
Planned Parenthood Sanger’s activism
brought major changes to an issue of
great importance to the women’s movement
they don’t know love they don’t know
marriage they know nothing about
bringing up children already the
marriage problems of life and yet they
speak to people as if they were God
number 9 Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft played a significant role
in establishing the very concept of
women’s rights in 1792 the British
writer wrote the landmark a vindication
of the Rights of Woman which decried
sexual double standards common in the
era her advocacy of the Equality of
education or that men be held to the
same standard of fidelity as women was
seen as revolutionary number eight
Emmeline Pankhurst in the 19th and early
20th centuries the fight for women’s
right to vote took on a new caste in
Britain suffragettes like Emmeline
Pankhurst believed in deeds not words
they smashed windows set fires and
accosted police too
at their message across Pankhurst and
her allies were thrown in jail for their
actions but it paid off in 1928 the year
of her death
British women obtained full voting
rights number seven Hillary Clinton
women are still the majority of the
world’s poor the uneducated the
unhealthy the unfed numerous u.s. first
ladies like Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty
Ford have advanced women’s issues
Hillary Clinton has carried on that
tradition by moving beyond her role as
the president’s wife to become a u.s.
senator a Secretary of State and a
contender for the office of President
among her accomplishments is the
establishment of the position of United
States Ambassador at large for global
women’s issues which ensures a place for
women’s issues on the u.s. foreign
policy table let’s keep fighting for
freedom and equality let’s keep fighting
for full participation and let’s keep
telling the world over and over again
that yes women’s rights are human rights
and human rights are women’s rights once
and for all thank you all so much number
six
Simone de Beauvoir it can be argued that
the modern women’s movement kicked into
high gear after the publication of de
Beauvoir the second sex in 1949 in this
book the French philosopher laid out in
detail the exact dimensions of
inequality and oppression which women
faced her work served as a blueprint for
many of the women’s activists who
followed number 5 Betty Ford an American
Betty Ford an is one of those activists
who is indebted to de Beauvoir her 1963
book The Feminine Mystique
appeared just as the 1960s was evolving
into a decade of change women’s
activists embraced its message in a big
way
Verdun also founded the National
Organization for Women organized the
national women’s strike for equality and
helped establish the National Women’s
Political caucus that I am free to wear
a bra not to wear bras my business and
yours you know but it’s the media that
want to dismiss
it’s a joke number four Lucy Stone the
first woman from Massachusetts to earn a
college degree stone was part of the
first national women’s rights convention
in 1850 as well as the woman’s national
oil league
she also founded woman’s journal which
was hugely influential in spreading
women’s rights messages number three
Gloria Steinem arguably the most famous
women’s activist of the 20th century
Steinem helped carry the 1960s women’s
liberation movement from the
counterculture to the mainstream
co-founder of MS magazine she worked
with Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan to
establish the Women’s Media Center in
2005 she has also been a vocal opponent
of pornography considering it degrading
to women and a strong advocate for
greater participation by women in
politics I feel lucky I feel happy I
feel just amazingly gifted that I can do
what I love and care about
number two susan b anthony as the name
most identified with american women’s
activism the dynamic Anthony made the
woman’s right to vote her life’s goal
she founded the revolution with
Elizabeth Cady Stanton which was a
journal that featured what could be her
motto men their rights and nothing more
women their rights and nothing less a
tireless speaker and organizer she died
before her dream of a woman’s right to
vote came true however the 19th
amendment granting that right is also
known as the Anthony Amendment before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions I’m very grateful for
the Welcome which you have extended and
very grateful for the opportunity to
learn which is my real reason for coming
to this country through it all Betty
Ford faced the challenges of life with
the grace and poise of a dancer they
only can shoot a body but they cannot
shoot my dreams and I think my dreams
are living
number one Elizabeth Cady Stanton not as
well-known now as she was in the 19th
and early 20th centuries Stanton was a
passionate advocate for equal rights she
was the driving force behind the 1848
Seneca Falls convention and subsequent
women’s rights conventions although an
ardent supporter of the right to vote
she was equally focused on issues such
as birth control property rights divorce
employment and custody issues her book
The Woman’s Bible and her many fiery
speeches inspired countless women to
believe they had a place in the world
and not just the household do you agree
with our picks
what ardent activists would you have put
on the list for more enthralling top
tens published daily be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com to ensure
that people everywhere women and men
alike finally have the opportunity to
live up to their own god-given potential
so let’s go forth and make it happen
thank you
[Music]
you
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