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.
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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.
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.
Rita Ndzanga
South African anti-apartheid, labor rights and women’s rights activist
Shirley Gunn
South African anti-apartheid activist
Rebecca Lan
South African social researcher and activist
Sarah Carneson
South African anti-apartheid and labor rights activist and journalist