list 50 women little girls should admire instead of symbols of stupidity and weakness

Betty Williams, together with Mairead Corrigan, was awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, for starting the peace movement in Northern Ireland.

Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams started the peace movement in Northern Ireland, and led marches in which Catholics and Protestants walked together in demonstrations for peace, and against violence.

She has been called ‘the world’s most reknowned female prisoner of conscience’, kept under house arrest by Burma’s tyrannical regime.

She is the author of Canada’s bestselling Company’s Coming cookbook series. Her recipes are so good that when people serve them to guests, the guests ask for the recipe. The books are sold in supermarkets and word-of-mouth publicity has made them very popular. I have never seen them advertised in the media!

Elizabeth Marshall Thomas is the author of The Tribe of Tiger, The Harmless People, Warrior Herdsmen, The Hidden Life of Dogs, and the novels Certain Poor Shepherds, Reindeer Moon, and The Animal Wife.

Louyse Bourgeois (1563-1636) was the most famous midwife (a person, historically female, who helps other women give birth) of her time. As one of the first educated and medically trained midwives, she raised her profession to a new level of competence and promoted the spread of that competence through her widely read books recounting her observations and experiences.
http://www.discoveriesinmedicine.com/General-Information-and-Biographies/Bourgeois-Louyse.html

Mary White
Edwina Hearn Froelich
Mary Ann Cahill
Betty Wagner Spandikow
Viola Brennan Lennon
Mary Ann Kerwin
Marian Leonard Tompson

In 1956, these seven women founded a group which became La Leche League International. At the time, only about 20% of U. S. women breastfed their babies. Information was scarce, and bottle-feeding was being promoted heavily. Thanks to their efforts, many millions of mothers have successfully breastfed their children with the support and encouragement of local LLL groups. The LLL book, The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, has been through many editions, and continues to be a source of wisdom for new mothers.

La Leche League was founded to give information and encouragement, mainly through personal help, to all mothers who want to breastfeed their babies. While complementing the care of the physician and other health care professionals, it recognizes the unique importance of one mother helping another to perceive the needs of her child and to learn the best means of fulfilling those needs.
http://www.llli.org/

Alexa McDonough was leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada from 1995 to 2003. During her years as leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada, the federal NDP put a priority on the issues of health care, education, pensions and unemployment. Earlier in her political career, Alexa McDonough was distinguished as the first woman to lead a recognized political party in Canada when she was elected leader of the Nova Scotia NDP in 1980.

Kathleen Shannon, founder and executive producer of the National Film Board’s famous women’s Studio D, played a key role in providing Canadian women, filmmakers and audiences alike, the opportunity to create, share and view their own stories on the film screen.

Mehta has developed a well-earned reputation as innovative and courageous filmmaker whose movies often address the universal issue of identity and tradition.