The US news magazine’s survey of “the women who have most influenced our world” is topped by Jane Addams, an outspoken advocate for women’s suffrage, who was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize and includes US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the sixth place.
Indira Gandhi ranked ninth, figured on TIME cover when she was elected Prime Minister in 1966 with a line reading, “Troubled India in a Woman’s Hands.”
”Those steady hands went on to steer India, not without controversy, for much of the next two decades through recession, famine, the detonation of the nation’s first atomic bomb, a corruption scandal and a civil war in neighbouring Pakistan that, under her guidance, led to the creation of a new state, Bangladesh,” the magazine said.
”By the time she was assassinated, in 1984, Gandhi was the world’s longest-serving female prime minister, a distinction she holds to this day.”
Of Mother Teresa, ranked 22nd, Time said: “Her iconic white garb with its blue stripe trim is now equated with her ideals of service and charity among ‘the poorest of the poor.’”