Corazon Aquino, Indira Gandhi in Time's list of 25 most powerful women

1.714814-371091891 — Left to right, from top: Philippine democracy icon Corazon Aquino, former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, talk show host Oprah Winfrey, Pop queen Madonna, and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. All six have made it to Time magazine's list of 25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century. Image Credit: Gulf News Archive

Dubai: Philippine democracy icon Corazon Aquino and former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi were among the women from Asia who made it to Time magazine's list of 25 Most Powerful Women of the Past Century.

Aquino served as an inspiration for the bloodless "People Power" revolution in 1986 that ended Ferdinand Marcos' 20-year-rule in the Philippines. As then president, she restored people's faith in good government. Aquino died of colon cancer in 2009 at the age of 76.

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Indira Gandhi was elected prime minister in 1966 and successfully steered India through 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. She was the world's longest-serving female prime minister. She was assassinated in 1984.

Jane Addams, an outspoken advocate for women's right to vote, heads the US news magazine's survey of “the women who have most influenced our world” . Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Also in the list is US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mother Teresa.

Pop queen Madonna and popular talk show host Oprah Winfrey also made it to the list, along with another entertainer, Aretha Franklin.

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