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
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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).
Lin Qiaozhi
20th century Chinese doctor
Dr Dora Akunyili
Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008
Denise Soesilo
German hockey player and environmental health activist
Frances Rix Ames
South African neurologist, psychiatrist and human rights activist
Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo
Activist who accused South African president Jacob Zuma of rape