Georgina McCready
A founding member of the New South Wales Nurses Association (NSWNA) in 1931, she was its first Honorary Secretary and the first woman to hold such a position in an industrial organisation in Australia.
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Dr Gertrude Kelly
Irish surgeon and political activist
Rosaline Kelly
Irish union official and media professional
Esther Peterson
In 1961, labor activist Esther Peterson, the head of the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, urged President Kennedy to establish the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in order to develop recommendations for achieving gender equality.
Mary Teresa Norton
For a quarter century in the House, America knew Mary T. Norton as “Battling Mary,” a reformer who fought for the labor and working-class interests of her urban New Jersey district.
Laphonza Romanique Butler
US Senator from California
Colleen Hanabusa
A prominent labor lawyer, Colleen Hanabusa served in the Hawaii state senate for a dozen years before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010.
Elizabeth Furse
Born in the colonial British Empire, Elizabeth Furse became an anti-apartheid activist, an advocate for migrant farm workers and Native Americans, and founder of a peace institute.
Alice Hobbins Porter
British-American journalist
Maggie Condon
Irish-American labor leader