Julia O’Connor
A successful and nonviolent strike of 8,000 women telephone operators in April 1919, led by Julia O’Connor, paralyzed telephone service in five New England states for six days.
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Mary Morton Kehew
Mary Morton Kehew led the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union from 1892 until her death in 1919.
Mary Kenney O’Sullivan
Suffragist and one of the principal founders of the National Women’s Trade Union League in 1903.
Emily Greene Balch
Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her indefatigable work for peace, in particular with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Rose Finkelstein Norwood
Indefatigable union activist and organizer.
Joan Bielski
Bielski was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and of the NSW Women in Education group (1973-1994), a feminist organisation, whose slogan was Educate to Liberate.
Belinda Morieson
Belinda Morieson was Branch Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation, Victoria Branch (ANF(Vic)) from 1989-2001.
Nennie Harken
Australian educator, pay equality activist and trade unionist
Dr Melnea Agnes Jones Cass
As a suffragist, clubwoman, and activist, Cass advocated for Boston’s most disadvantaged inhabitants.
Alice Lord
Alice Lord sparked organization of the Seattle Waitresses Union, Local 240 (now Dining Employees Local #2) in March 1900, and orchestrated the union’s successful campaigns to promote landmark minimum wage and hour laws for working women.