Kristin Baker, the first female brigade commander at West Point, and ABC's Diane Sawyer join 10 others as Glamour magazine's most inspiring women of 1989.

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Also named to the list were "Murphy Brown" star Candice Bergen and the show's creator, Diane English; the Central Park jogger who was assaulted by a mob; Japanese politician Takako Doi; sociologist Arlie Hochschild; AIDS researcher Iris Long; Dr. Elizabeth Morgan, who spent two years in jail to keep her daughter away from her ex-husband; Euzhan Palcy, director of "A Dry White Season"; Wendy Wasserstein, Pulitizer-winning playwright of "The Heidi Chronicles"; and Planned Parenthood head Faye Wattleton.

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