TIME Reveals 100 Women of the Year: The Leaders, Innovators, Activists, Entertainers, Athletes and Artists Who Defined a Century

Historic Global Initiative, Conceived with Award-Winning Filmmaker Alma Har'el, Includes 100 TIME Covers and Documentary Film, Co-Produced by TIME Studios, Jellywolf, and P&G

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Mar 05, 2020, 08:14 ET

NEW YORK, March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, TIME reveals the 100 Women of the Year: the leaders, innovators, activists, entertainers, athletes and artists who defined a century.

Inspired by TIME's annual Person of the Year, which started in 1927 as "Man of the Year" and became "Person of the Year" in 1999, and timed to International Women's Day and the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in the U.S., this historic TIME project recognizes the most influential women of each year from 1920-2019.

TIME executive editor and editorial director of 100 Women of the Year Kelly Conniff writes: "For me, seeing women on the cover of a magazine created by men for 'busy men,' as TIME's founders wrote in their original prospectus, is always powerful. I joined TIME in 2012, when over the course of a year just a handful of women were featured on the cover. In 2019, TIME featured more solo women on its cover than men for the first time in our 97-year history. The world has changed and TIME has too, but there have always been women worthy of TIME's cover." https://bit.ly/2TBijNQ

Explore the 100 Women of the Year initiative: http://time.com/100-women-of-the-year/

Conceived with award-winning filmmaker Alma Har'el, the 100 Women of the Year were selected by TIME editors, in collaboration with Har'el, and a committee of influential women across different fields, including Katie Couric, Soledad O'Brien, Lena Waithe, MJ Rodriguez, Elaine Welteroth, Amanda Nguyen, Zazie Beetz, and former editor in chief of TIME Nancy Gibbs.

"Each generation inherits a history, focused through the lens of those who came before it—but time tends to reveal a greater depth of field. We need to reclaim our narrative and salute the women who changed our world but were not given the place in history they deserved. I'm honored and thankful to TIME for opening their Person of the Year process for the first time ever and making Women of the Year a reality," said Har'el. https://bit.ly/32U3b28

For the first time in its history, TIME releases 100 TIME covers for a single project. Each of the 100 Women of the Year is recognized with a TIME cover that is visually emblematic of the period its subject represents. In all, TIME commissioned 49 original artists' portraits, including work by Koyin Ojih Odutola, Mickalene Thomas, Shana Wilson, Bisa Butler, Yulia Brodskaya, Amaya Gurpide, Jennifer Dionisio, Mercedes deBellard, Lavett Ballard and more.

See the 100 Women of the Year covers: https://bit.ly/2IioFfX

Behind the covers: https://bit.ly/2Tpq0b7

In an essay on the project, Gibbs writes: "The women profiled here enlarged their world and explored new ones, broke free of convention and constraint, welcomed into community the lost and left behind. They were the different drummers, to whose beat a century marched without always even knowing it. So this special project is an act of discovery, and rediscovery, of the possibilities that come when we look and listen differently to the world these women made."https://bit.ly/3aoBzVw

In addition to 100 TIME covers, the initiative features profiles by notable contributors selected by TIME, including Natalie Portman on Jacqueline Kennedy, Olivia Wilde on Sinead O'Connor, Brittney Cooper on Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Melinda Gates on Tu Youyou, Katie Couric on Rosalind Franklin, Zazie Beetz on Michelle Obama, MJ Rodiguez on Bessie Smith, Jen Salke on Malala Yousafzai, and more, a special print edition of TIME featuring a gatefold of all 100 covers, a digital destination on Time.com, and a 100 Women of the Year documentary, featuring the selection committee's conversations on the impact of these 100 women on our modern world, produced by TIME Studios, Jellywolf and P&G, and directed by Orian Barki.

The initiative is the result of a partnership between TIME, Har'el, known for genre-redefining creativity and a relentless dedication to gender equality behind and in front of the camera, and P&G, whose brands reach 5 Billion people daily and is committed to creating a world free from bias with an equal voice and equal representation for all individuals.

"We should live in an equal world between women and men, with equal representation, voices, roles, pay, respect and equal recognition. The 100 Women of the Year initiative represents an important step toward achieving that equality by shining the light on the extraordinary women who deserve their place in history for their tremendous contributions to humanity and to the world," said P&G's Marc Pritchard.

THE 100 WOMEN OF THE YEAR: http://time.com/100-women-of-the-year/

ABOUT TIME
TIME is a global media brand that reaches a combined audience of more than 90 million around the world, including over 35 million digital visitors each month and 42 million social followers. A trusted destination for reporting and insight, TIME's mission is to tell the stories that matter most, to lead conversations that change the world and to deepen understanding of the ideas and events that define our time. With unparalleled access to the world's most influential people, the immeasurable trust of consumers globally, an unrivaled power to convene, TIME is one of the world's most recognizable media brands with renowned franchises that include the TIME 100 Most Influential People, Person of the Year, Firsts, Best Inventions, World's Greatest Places and premium events including the TIME 100 Summit and Gala, TIME 100 Health Summit, TIME 100 Next and more.

ABOUT P&G
P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®. P&G aspires to build a world free from gender bias with an equal voice and equal representation for all individuals. Through their powerful voice in advertising, P&G brand campaigns like Always #LikeAGirl, Olay #MakeSpaceForWomen, and Secret #AllStrengthNoSweat are sparking conversations that motivate change. P&G is helping remove barriers to education for girls and economic opportunities for women while also creating an inclusive, gender-equal environment inside P&G—and advocating for gender-equal workplaces beyond P&G—where everyone can contribute to their full potential.

ABOUT ALMA HAR'EL AND JELLYWOLF
Alma Har'el is an award-winning director who brought to life visionary work in documentary, music videos, TV commercials and scripted narrative. She is also the first woman in DGA Awards history to be nominated for both commercial directing (2018) and narrative directing (2020).

Her most recent film, Honey Boy, written by, and starring, Shia LaBeouf, made her the first woman to win the DGA Award for First-Time Feature Film. The film was distributed by Amazon Studios.

In 2016, Har'el founded her non-profit, Free The Bid, which transformed the global hiring practices of female directors in advertising, and then grew beyond measurable success into FREE THE WORK. FTW advocates for, and showcases, over 2,000 underrepresented filmmakers in 21 countries worldwide.

Born out of her work with branded content, and inspired by FTW, Har'el, and her longtime producing partner, Chris Leggett, also started Jellywolf, a boutique studio that strives to create contemporary content with visionary new voices who recognize the social importance of storytelling.

Har'el's passion for encouraging equality across entertainment, along with her directing work, landed her in Fast Company's "Most Creative People of 2018", Adweek's "Disruptors of 2018" and on Indiewire's list of leading "Women Who Made the World of Filmmaking a Better Place in 2018."

CONTACT
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