Sarah Jackson
New Zealand teacher, industrial school matron and manager and community leader
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Sarah Page
New Zealand teacher, feminist, prohibitionist, socialist and social reformer
Lucy Smith
New Zealand editor, feminist, temperance and welfare worker
Helen Nicol
New Zealand suffragist and temperance campaigner
Mary Player
New Zealand midwife, welfare worker, feminist and social reformer
Margaret Caro
New Zealand dentist, Seventh-day Adventist and social reformer
Ada M Bittenbender
American lawyer and reformer
Ada Mary Courtice
Canadian educator, social reformer, and office holder
Josephine St Pierre Ruffin
An activist at heart, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin assumed many public roles throughout her life, from publisher and clubwoman to community leader and national organizer.
Frances Perkins
American workers-rights advocate, first women in the US Cabinet, fourth US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.