Jane Doe is magazine's woman of the year

Doe sued police for failing to warn women in downtown Toronto that a serial rapist was in their neighborhood.

The article does not give Doe's real name, and she is not pictured.

Earlier this year, Doe won a 12-year battle that ended with a judge declaring that police had been "utterly negligent."

The judge lambasted Toronto police for using women as bait to catch the so-called Balcony Rapist, who operated in the Church and Wellesley Sts. area in the mid-1980s.

Doe, now in her early 40s, was raped in 1986 by Paul Douglas Callow, who pleaded guilty to a series of rapes and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

"Jane Doe is Canada's most influential critic of the way police treat sexual assault," said Chatelaine editor Rona Maynard.