Dr Deborah H Ward
American health executive
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Mary Cosgrave
Irish social worker and local politician
Benita Galeana
Mexican activist imprisoned several times for her work defending the rights of workers and the marginalized.
Letitia Munson
1800s Canadian herbalist, fortune-teller and midwife
Anne Smith-Young
Founded non-profit organization (Continence Restored, Inc. 1975) that disseminates information on bladder control problems to people with the problem, people interested in the problem and help create and awareness about having urinary incontinence.
Dr Ethel Percy Andrus
Founder of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1997 for her work to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the prize with her that year.
Rostyslava Nychay Bohachevsky
Activist in the Ukrainian Women’s League, travelling through villages, setting up kindergartens, and health and legal-aid cooperatives.
Dr Mary Booth
Australian physician, educator and welfare worker
Madi Gray
South African anti-apartheid activist