"Time" magazine features an annual "Person of the Year" cover story in which "Time" recognizes the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest impact on news headlines over the previous 12 months. In 2020 the magazine decided to retroactively choose a historically deserving woman for each year in which a man had been named Person of the Year, reflecting the fact that a woman or women had been named Person of the Year only 11 times in the preceding 100 years. As part of this review, Michelle Obama was named the Woman of the Year for 2008.