Emily Newell Blair
American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.
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Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson was a fifth-generation Mormon who became active in the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1977, Johnson co-founded Mormons for ERA. Her activism led to her excommunication from the LDS Church and influenced her decision to run for President.
Helen Reddy
Australian feminist musician
Dr Camille Becker
Australian feminist theologian
Joan Arbeiter
American feminist artist
Blanca Lydia Trejo
Mexican novelist, essayist, journalist and diplomat
Anna Leonowens
Author, educator, and feminist, inspiration for the musical The King and I
Robertine Barry
Canadian journalist, writer, lecturer, feminist, and office holder
He-Yin Zhen
Chinese feminist and anarchist
Simone Veil
French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).