Beyonce and Madonna have been named among TIME magazine’s 100 Women of the Year from 1920 until the present day.
Editors at the publication have undertaken the project to address the gender imbalance of their long-running Man or Woman of the Year award – creating a cover for the woman deemed most influential. Madonna was selected as 1989’s biggest female figure, while Beyonce landed the 2014 accolade for a year in which she embraced her status as a major feminist icon on her self-titled album.
Other notable names chosen from the world of entertainment include Billie Holiday (1939), Lucille Ball (1951), Marilyn Monroe (1954), West Side Story star Rita Moreno (1961), Aretha Franklin (1968), Sinead O’Connor (1992), Ellen DeGeneres (1997), J.K.
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