Time magazine releases new 'Women of the Year' covers

Seeking to correct its long record of highlighting men on its annual "Man of the Year," and more recently, "Person of the Year" covers, Time yesterday launched a 100 Women of the Year project, which includes 89 new Time covers and 11 of the "Person of the Year" covers that did feature women. At least nine women on the new list directly influenced health and medicine, including Rosalind Franklin, whose contributions to the 1953 discovery of DNA's structure were long overlooked, and Jane Roe, whose 1973 Supreme Court case paved the way for abortion rights. Others on the list: Tu Youyou (named 1979's "Women of the Year") for her discovery of the antimalarial drug artemisinin, and Joycelyn Elders, who in 1993 became the first Black U.S. Surgeon General.