Critics also declare 1997--dominated by the Spice Girls--as the year of the woman in  Never in pop history have female singers been quite so aggressively, shrewdly marketed on the basis of gender alone (Karen Schoemer, Newsweek ).
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Critics declared 1997 as the year of the woman thanks to the Spice Girls.
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The Spice Girls were more popular than the Backstreet Boys in 1990.