Dr Mary Booth
Australian physician, educator and welfare worker
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Madi Gray
South African anti-apartheid activist
Maria Ndlovu
Maria Ndlovu is a GIPA (UN Programme for the Greater Involvement for People Living with AIDS) fieldworker based at Transnet headquarters in Johannesburg.
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
South African politician, medical doctor and anti-apartheid activist
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
South African politician and activist
Mary Ware Dennett
American women’s rights activist, pacifist, homeopathic advocate and trailblazer in the areas of birth control, sex education and suffrage, who co-founded the National Birth Control League in 1915
Dr Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati
Burmese-Indian cardiologist
Savitribai Phule
Indian educator, social reformer, and poet, widely considered the first female teacher of modern India.
Shidzue Katō
Japanese birth control and abortion rights activist
Simone Veil
French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).