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TV's Most Powerful Working Women

Move over Carol Brady. Whether they're married or single, today's fictional female role models--and there are more of them than ever--are feisty and in control. (12 Photos)

Jacki Garfinkel on Aug 18, 2009 at 2:41PM

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Lynette Scavo

We still can't wrap our heads around everything that Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman) has gone through on Desperate Housewives. From breast cancer to almost losing her husband and children to a tornado, and then almost losing her children to a psychotic daughter, we're in awe that Lynette still gets up every day to go to work. She does what it takes to get ahead, even if she ends up dancing on a bar. Granted, she gave up her full-time job to join her husband, Tom, at the Scavo pizzeria. But no matter where Lynette works, she always gives it 110 percent.