Claudia Jones
Journalist born in Trinidad who dedicated her life to fighting racism inequality and injustice.
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Elizabeth Mackay
New Zealander Elizabeth Mackay was a full partner in farming activities, owning 125 acres in her own right.
Wendy Weeks
From 1991, she was a senior lecturer and later associate professor of Social Work at the University of Melbourne.
Jean Begg
New Zealand welfare worker
May Furey
New Zealand suffragist
Assia Djebar
Best known by her pen name Assia Djebar, Fatima-Zohra Imalayen was an Algerian feminist novelist, translator and filmmaker, considered one of North Africa’s most influential writers.
Florence Dixie
English explorer and writer
Maura Breslin
Irish trade unionist and feminist
Margaret Gaj
Irish restaurateur, radical, and political activist
Ellen Melville
Although she worked tirelessly to complete the work of the nineteenth century feminists in attempting to remove so-called women’s disabilities, Ellen Melville represented a new breed of feminism. She was an independent professional woman who vigorously sought full participation in public life. She encouraged other women to follow her and to form strong women’s societies, which would take women’s concerns into the arena of public affairs. Melville was one of the key figures in the revival of the feminist movement in the twentieth century.