41 Women Who Should Be In The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

The latest round of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductions were announced today, and Whitney Houston is the only woman honored. This visible problem offers yet another chance to decry the gender imbalance within Cleveland's canonizing institution, an inequity that's been reported again and again, most powerfully by my friend and colleague Evelyn McDonnell, who crunched some numbers recently and came up with a staggeringly low percent of representation for women.

Since feminists began throwing light on this subject, many have made lists of potential women inductees, but perhaps these efforts haven't gone far enough. In the spirit of aggressively pointing out the obvious, here's a playlist list of women who could be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, consisting (mostly) of artists who issued debut recordings in every year represented by the inductions so far. You'll note that this challenges narrow definitions of rock and roll — which is exactly what needs to happen, and is happening, as the Hall strives to remain relevant and historically accurate. Women have long expanded frameworks