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This year’s Power List will celebrate seven women who’ve made the biggest impact on women’s lives over the past seven decades.

To recognise women’s achievements across the history of the programme, for the first time women no longer living will be considered for a place on the list. Those outside the UK will also be considered if their impact here can be demonstrated.

Emma Barnett

Let the battle for these seven spots commence….I’ve got my ref’s whistle ready.

Emma Barnett, Chair of the Woman's Hour Power List 2016 judges.

Emma Barnett, chair of the Woman's Hour Power List 2016 judges says:

"I am particularly excited that for the first time we can honour great women who are no longer with us. In previous years we’ve solely focused on women presently impacting our lives. By opening up the annals of history – we can also pay tribute to the great women to whom we owe so much and have a duty to remember – which is extremely fitting in Woman’s Hour’s 70th year."

Judges will consider a woman’s body of work or her role as a catalyst for change. The Power List is also expected to include the names of women changing women’s lives today.

The Woman's Hour Power List 2016 will be revealed on Wednesday 14 December.

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The Power List Panel:

This year’s panel is chaired by presenter of ±«Óãtv 5Live Daily, regular guest presenter of Woman's Hour and Sunday Times columnist, Emma Barnett with judges: Karren Brady, business leader and life peer; Ayesha Hazarika, former Labour adviser and commentator; Abi Morgan, award-winning screenwriter (The Iron Lady and Suffragette); Jill Burridge, former editor of Woman’s Hour; Julia Hobsbawm, Founder, Editorial Intelligence.

The Woman's Hour Power List in 2016 will celebrate seven women who’ve made the biggest impact on women’s lives since the programme’s launch in 1946.

To be part of the judging tasked with whittling down a list like this with so, so many great women to choose from is a great honour. This is a challenge as daunting as it is exciting.

Julia Hobsbawm, Founder, Editorial Intelligence and Power List judge

A brief history of the Woman’s Hour Power List:

• Launched in 2013 with the 100 most powerful women in the UK, looking at women working in traditional power structures – politics, the law, big business and was headed by the Queen

• In 2014 the list focused on ten ‘Game Changers’ with Baroness Doreen Lawrence in first place.

• In 2015 the theme was ‘The Power to Influence’ with Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon heading the list.