Hetty Gilbert
Hetty Gilbert was the first woman President of the Victorian Teachers’ Union, and fought for equal pay in education.
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Elizabeth Stewart Magee
Fought to secure labor-reform legislation, especially protecting women and children
Josefina Vicens
Mexican novelist, poet, screenwriter and activist for labor rights and women’s rights
Juliet Clannon Cushing
Juliet Clannon Cushing (1845-1935), an advocate of protective labor legislation for women and founded the Consumers’ League of New Jersey in 1900.
Sue Ko Lee
Sue Ko Lee was a Chinese American garment worker and labor organizer with the Chinese Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Association. In 1938, she participated in a successful 15-week strike against the National Dollar Stores garment factory. At the time, it was the longest strike in the history of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Lee went on to become a leader in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU) in California.
Alberta Gonzalez
She and other workers staged the first Puerto Rican workers strike in New Jersey.
Leonora Barry
Leonora Barry (1849-1923) was the first woman paid to be a labor investigator in the US.
Marietta Boggio Botto
Marietta “Maria” Boggio Botto (1870-1915) was an “outwork” silk worker, who hosted the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913 at her home in Haledon, New Jersey.
Elizabeth Almira Allen
Elizabeth Almira Allen (1854-1919) was a teachers’ rights advocate and the first female president of the New Jersey Education Association.
Katherine Schaub
Katherine Schaub (1902-1933) was a dial painter who played a pivotal role, with her court testimonies and self-documentation, in getting radium recognized as a harmful substance and subsequently phased out of use in manufacturing altogether.