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Patricia de Lille

South African politician

Nosipho Dorothy Ntwanambi

South African activist who was Deputy President of the African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) and an African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee member.

Poomoney Moodley

Indian-South African political activist

Yumi Ishikawa

Japanese feminist known for the #KuToo movement, standing up against the high heel policy in Japan and discriminatory practices in the workplace and the rest of the corporate world.

Founded the 9to5 organization to fight for working women’s rights. They successfully fought for the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and many more national policies that prohibit workplace discrimination and harassment.

Gloria Allred

American lawyer and activist

Anasuya Sarabhai

Indian activist for the rights of textile workers

Anita Hill

By telling her own story of repeated harassment from a man in power, Anita Hill amplified the voices of millions of other women and men struggling with workplace harassment.

Pregs Govender

Having overcome the oppressive political and social climate that once undermined her as an Indian woman living in apartheid South Africa, Govender continues to fight against racism, gender inequality and classism.