By IANS
New York : Benazir Bhutto figured among the 10 women most admired by Americans in a survey conducted by USA Today newspaper and Gallup polling agency.
The slain Pakistani leader, who had studied at Harvard, made it to the list for the first time, chosen by two percent of over 1,000 respondents in the annual poll conducted earlier this month.
The list was topped by US Senator Hillary Clinton, who narrowly beat television celebrity Oprah Winfrey. Clinton, who is the front-running Democratic party candidate, was chosen by 18 percent of Americans. Winfrey, who has been campaigning for Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama, was just two percentage points behind the former first lady.
Other women in the top 10 were US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (five percent), actress Angelina Jolie and first lady Laura Bush, both with three percent support and former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who had the same level of support as Bhutto.
US House of Representatives speaker, Nancy Pelosi, African-American author Maya Angelou and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II rounded off the list, all garnering one percent of Americans’ votes.
The poll asked 1,011 adults in the US to choose women “living today in any part of the world” they admired most.