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"Mothering might be the most important job we&amp;#039;ll ever have, but in my opinion, these five women are bringing skills honed at home to the global level and making a huge impact. Not only are they the &amp;quot;Moms of the Year,&amp;quot; they are some of the most influential people of the year. Whatever your personal views on these ladies are, these woman should be rewarded for breaking boundaries and paving the way to leadership roles for the next generation.  Katie Couric America&amp;#039;s morning show sweetheart left her post at Today to become the first woman anchor on a nightly news program. When taking the chair on CBS&amp;#039; Evening News, Couric not only broke the glass ceiling, she became the highest-paid news anchor in the business. Like the rest of us, Couric says she&amp;#039;s still navigating the work-life balance, but she does put her kids first. &amp;#039;&amp;quot;We still try to have dinner together almost every night,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; she told The New York Times. &amp;quot;I have the same struggles that all working mothers have.&amp;quot; Catch up with Katie Couric on her blog on CBS. Laurie David A one-woman green machine, Laurie David opened our eyes to the facts of global warming this year. She produced Al Gore&amp;#039;s shocking documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, guest-edited the first-ever eco-friendly issue of ELLE Magazine and wrote a book, Stop Global Warming: The Solution Is You!. The wife of Hollywood comedian Larry David, David was inspired to activism in 1994 after taking her infant daughter on a walk through a smoggy Los Angeles neighborhood. Hopefully, with the work she&amp;#039;s doing now, her grandchildren won&amp;#039;t have the same experience. Learn more about Laurie David and her fight against global warming on her website.  Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori Elected the first woman bishop in the Episcopal Church of the U.S.A, Jefferts Schori is one of the world&amp;#039;s most prominent female religious leaders. The ambitious bishop told Time that focus of the church would &amp;quot;be on feeding people who go to bed hungry, on providing primary education to girls and boys, on healing people with AIDS, on addressing tuberculosis and malaria, on sustainable development.&amp;quot; Her daughter, Katharine Johanna, who is 25 and a first lieutenant and pilot in the U.S. Air Force, was there with her mother as she took the helm of the congregation. Find out more about Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on the Episcopal Church website. Nancy Pelosi The first woman Speaker of the House in history, Pelosi didn&amp;#039;t even enter into politics until she was 47. In 1987, when the youngest of her five children was a senior in high school, she ran for Congress. She&amp;#039;s now a grandmother of six, presiding over a House with a record number of women in office (70, and 16 in the Senate), and not opposed to using her &amp;quot;mother of five voice&amp;quot; to bring order when necessary. Find out more about Nancy Pelosi on her website. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf &amp;quot;The Iron Lady&amp;quot; is Africa&amp;#039;s first elected female head of state, as well as a mother of four and a grandmother of six. Once jailed for criticizing the military regime and twice exiled, Johnson-Sirleaf returned to her country in 1997 and she won the 2005 election in a run-off. In her role as president of a war-torn country with a crippled economy, Johnson-Sirleaf pledged that she will &amp;quot;bring motherly sensitivity and emotion to the presidency&amp;quot; in Liberia.  Read more about Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in this great Time article. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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