The newspaper (station) you work for has a Community Advisory Council that meets monthly. At this month's meeting, one of the members remarked that men seemed to be in the news "all the time, but you hardly see a woman mentioned unless she's the secretary of state or a prime minister." Your editor has been wondering whether she has a point. After chatting with some members of the staff, the editor decides to run a monthly feature, entitled "Women of Accomplishment."

For starters, the editor distributes the following list of names and asks staffers to select one for a 500-word profile that will appear on the anniversary of the date of her birth or death. He also asks for nominees to add to the list.

1. Would you add any names to the list?
2. Write an article for the editor on someone from the list, or from those added to it. Try for a current lead angle.

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Jane Addams Louisa May Alcott Marian Anderson Susan B. Anthony Clara Barton Mary McLeod Bethune Margaret Bourke-White Rachel Carson Mary Cassatt Carrie C. Catt Willa Cather Dorothy Day Dorothea Dix Mary Baker Eddy Martha Graham Alice Hamilton

Billie Holliday Lena Horne Helen Keller Dorothea Lange Margaret Mead Georgia O'Keeffe Margaret Sanger Elizabeth Seton Bessie Smith Gertrude Stein Ida B. Wells Edith Wharton Emma Willard Frances Willard Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias