On July 24, 2017 NPR wrote this:

This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present, is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record and hopefully the start of a new conversation. Compiled by nearly 50 women from across NPR and the public radio system and produced in partnership with Lincoln Center, it rethinks popular music to put women at the center.

The list can be seen in full here

…and heard here

m90 compiled this mixtape from the original NPR list

The shorter m90 version can be found here