Woman Of The Year: Who's On Your List?

'Women of the Year' lists are funny things. Obviously, any superlative list is highly subjective, and there's no set guidelines for what to value most in a candidate -- though the "accomplishments" of who makes what list are often telling. We struggled with TIME's decision to name Kate Middleton and Gabrielle Giffords as runners-up to their "People of the Year" list, only to select the princess and snub the senator and survivor (sorry, Kate, but I think Giffords is a little more deserving) and I'm sure several people were left scratching their heads at the French public's support for Anne Sinclair, wife of former IMF Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, as "Woman of The Year" in a poll conducted by the online women's magazine Terrafemina (does being scorned by your husband and standing up for him something to be emulated?)

Jane Martinson, writing in The Guardian's "Women's Blog With Jane Martinson," gets it right when she looks at lists -- like The Guardian's "Women Of The Year" -- and asks if they really reflect the most exceptional accomplishments of women in 2011.

We want to know: who are the women that most impressed you in 2011 and deserve recognition for their accomplishments? Tweet @HuffPostWomen with the hashtag #womenofyear

Comments

[Whistlejackett]

03:31 PM on 01/02/2012

https://twitter.com/#!/monic2420 The woman in this picture. She is on twitter!

[JoeHurley]

01:08 PM on 01/02/2012

Angela Merkel

[zoebliss]

10:54 PM on 12/29/2011

my vote goes to TYRA BANKS.

[MrOnePercent2012]

02:11 PM on 12/27/2011

Boy George.

[ethiopia1a]

10:34 AM on 12/30/2011

X2.

[BlackAndBuddhist]

02:51 AM on 12/27/2011

Arianna Huffington, Elizabeth Hasselbeck, our female troops.

[singermuse]

04:07 PM on 12/26/2011

Woman of the year? That Lovely 80 plus year old PEACEFUL Occupy protester that was pepper sprayed by the police in Seattle.

[MrOnePercent2012]

02:09 PM on 12/27/2011

LOL.
You Huffies have plastered that all over this site. It's BS and everyone knows she had it coming to her. Time to move on.
LOL.

[rewith85man]

09:57 PM on 12/25/2011

If I say Kim Kardashian, I may create enemies.

[MrOnePercent2012]

02:10 PM on 12/27/2011

No, you just create those who feel sorry for your mental condition.

[LeonBNJ]

10:15 AM on 12/25/2011

The women who are part of the protests in North Africa, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and even in the USA, fighting for equality, justice, peace, access to health care for themselves and their families without religious, cultural or government pressure or interferience

[Christine McClure]

05:49 AM on 12/25/2011

You lost me at Kristen Wiig.

[belldn3]

05:26 PM on 12/24/2011

Whoever she is, she should have good looking feet.

[robbo1400]

03:54 PM on 12/24/2011

Hey HP, WHO wrote this article? Gabby Giffords is a member of the House of Representatives (Congresswoman - NOT Senator) from Arizona. If you want to nominate someone for an award, maybe you should know a little bit about them?

[MrOnePercent2012]

02:52 PM on 12/27/2011

HP is now farming out its editorial duties to China.

[gardinerda]

03:04 PM on 12/24/2011

EVERY woman like my mom, God Rest Her Soul! She took care of her children and four others during WWII. Learned to chop wood to keep us warm. Grew and preserved food so we had enough to eat, and drove off a man who tried to break in. (She armed herself with with a revolver). Raided and learned to slaughter and preseve pigs, and chickens so we could eat meat, poultry and have eggs. Made her own bread. All this from a woman who never had previously done these things, but would read books to learn how to do all of these things! Things were very hard than, with rationing, people who raised prices to make bigger profits, and men who wished to prey on women living alone. God bless you, Mom.

[BlackAndBuddhist]

02:48 AM on 12/27/2011

I believe she's in a good place. You touched my heart. Thank you.

[Azlegit]

01:43 PM on 12/24/2011

Is the protestor a woman or a transgender Al-Qaeda operative??

[MrOnePercent2012]

02:52 PM on 12/27/2011

Good point.

[ffa1234]

01:39 PM on 12/24/2011

Hillary Clinton--the number one diplomat in the world.

[nikkitytom]

02:48 PM on 12/24/2011

She certainly would get my vote. A lifetime of grace and dignity under personal and political pressures which would crush an ordinary woman. And she's still going strong.

[mericart]

12:25 AM on 12/26/2011

Agreed! Sometimes you need a burst of extraordinary, but Hillary is the steady stream of extraordinary. My hero this year and hopefully many more years.

Another nomination (if only she were real): Leslie Knope.

[juddydi]

12:32 PM on 12/24/2011

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.

[MrOnePercent2012]

02:10 PM on 12/27/2011

Please..........