The Guardian's Top 100 Women

http://www.guardian.co.uk


They have led countries, broken through glass ceilings and even been in space ...

• Top 100 women by category

• Activists and campaigners

  Nawal El Saadawi: Egyptian doctor, psychiatrist, feminist, university lecturer and writer

• Art, film, music & fashion

  Lady Gaga: Outlandish dresser, performer and politicised pop icon for the Twitter generation

• Business & trade unions

  Carol Bartz: The first female CEO of a major software company, Yahoo

• Law

  Gareth Peirce: Lawyer whose battles against miscarriages of justice have changed legal history

• Politics

  Aung San Suu Kyi: The Burmese pro-democracy leader who has inspired the world with her non-violent resistance to a brutal dictatorship

• Science & medicine

  Jane Goodall: Primatologist and environmental campaigner, who has conducted groundbreaking work on chimpanzees

• Sport & adventure

  Caster Semenya: Young athlete who overcame global gender taunts to win world championship

• Technology

  Martha Lane Fox: Entrepreneur who founded lastminute.com and is leading the government's campaign to get people online

• Television

  Oprah Winfrey: The talkshow host, actress and philanthropist - not satisfied with conquering the US - is taking on the whole world

• Writing & academia

  Doris Lessing: Nobel prize-winning novelist, celebrated for writing a pioneering work of female emancipation