Following on from @ErrolTheDragon's excellent thread on women whom we have admired and who have achieved so much this year ( www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/4111315-fwr-women-of-the-year ) I welcome you to the "OFFICIAL" FWR's Women of the Year Award 2020.
These were the guidelines set out by ErrolTheDragon:
*No fictional women
*Women valued for something more than appearance or entertainment value
*Can (should?) include women who we don't all agree with or necessarily admire.
It could include:
A) FWR heroes, some of whom won't be widely known.
B) women who you might expect to see a women of the year list in a serious newspaper. If they might figure in a 'people of the year' list or, if they'd been a man, men of the year.
All category winners will be announced on 31 December. Category of “Courage Calls To Courage” is still open for voting. PLEASE VOTE or nominate someone if you do not agree with my nominations – I chose the most obviously courageous women.
Just to be absolutely clear, these categories are ones I came up with (after asking ErrolTheDragon), you may or may not agree with them. I've included up to 5 (6 in 2) women in each category depending on how many were nominated. I have only included women who were nominated more than once (except Science, Medicine and Health), otherwise it would have been a nightmare to manage. Hopefully, everyone is in the right category, if not, I’m sure you will let me know 
. I think I have got everyone who were nominated, my apologies if I haven’t but I did try my best. I have also included some quotes, if they were given. Finally, I really enjoyed researching the women whom I had not heard of. So without further ado:
Academia & Research
Alice Sullivan
Maintaining their commitment to intellectual rigour and rational debate under hostile questioning from the misnamed Women and Equalities Committee
Emma Hilton
for her relentless insistence on scientific truth in the face of a Twitter audience determined to avoid it
Kathleen Stock
Of everything I've read, I find Dr Stock's writing to be the most considered and coherent and to really challenge and further the GC school of thought. I also really admire that she always stays true to her principles, never makes sweeping assertions or judgements about people and never retaliates in the face of what has been really horrible bullying. I honestly don't know how she does it but she's a real asset to GC feminism.
Rosa Freedman
maintaining their commitment to intellectual rigour and rational debate under hostile questioning from the misnamed Women and Equalities Committee
Selina Todd
risking censure and worse for telling the truth
Tireless Campaigner
Hibo Wardere
Nimco Ali
Dr Nicola Williams
Posie Parker
for her persistence in the face of criticism from all sides and raising awareness through "controversial" publicity strategy
Stephanie Davis-Arai
for substantive intervention in the Keira Bell judicial review
Freedom of Speech
Allison Bailey
Kate Scottow
Maya Forstater
Sarah Phillimore
International
Angela Merkel
Senator Claire Chandler
Iseult White
Martina Navratilova
Law, Policy & Politics (Scotland)
Joan McAlpine
Johann Lamont
for protecting vulnerable women
Nicola Sturgeon
Joanna Cherry
Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn, Lisa McKenzie
Law, Policy & Politics
Baroness Emma Nicholson
Not sure the Baroness can be nominated enough. A) her decades of work for women and children and B) to think it was only earlier this year she turned her attention to this.
Jackie Doyle-Price
Karen Davis
Liz Truss
for spearheading an important political conversation
Rosie Duffield
for truth-telling despite abuse
Sarah Field
standing up for women in Leeds
Science, Medicine and Health
Ozlem Tureci and Sarah Gilbert Oxford Covid Vaccine
Ruth May (Chief Nursing Officer)
for refusing to say what Boris/Cummings told her too and getting banned from the press conferences
Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna - Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Writing and Journalism
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Helen Joyce
Her work at the Economist has been important in preventing a mainstream respected publication from switching its brain off like so many others have done
Janice Turner
Julie Bindel
Rachel Rooney
Suzanne Moore
deserves credit for sticking it out as long as she did at the Guardian and also fighting hard against the bullshit
Media and Entertainment
Alison Moyet
Dolly Parton
Courage Calls to Courage Award
For Outstanding Courage - VOTING STILL OPEN - PLEASE VOTE
Keira Bell
for taking a stand
Rosie Duffield
for truth-telling despite abuse
JK Rowling
for sticking to her principles and speaking up in the face of horrific abuse
Senator Claire Chandler
Mrs A
FWR WOMAN OF THE YEAR 2020 – tba on 31 December
We have a clear winner.