Nombuso Mchunu
South African trade unionist
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Paula Ensor
South African anti-apartheid activist and Dean of the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town
Pauline Podbrey
South African Communist activist
Phyllis Altman
As the secretary-general of the IDAF, Altman ran various secret operations to send money into South Africa to pay for lawyers in anti-apartheid cases.
Pat Horn
South African trade unionist
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.
Karen Nussbaum
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.