Mildred Chadsey
American social reformer
American social reformer
President of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association and the American Women’s Suffrage Association, as well as an abolitionist and a leader of the temperance movement in Ohio
American lawyer, feminist, and reformer
A longtime suffragist with strong ties to New York politics and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Caroline O’Day was an unwavering supporter of New Deal legislation and a fervent pacifist during her four terms in the US House of Representatives.
Irish painter and social campaigner; in 1912 she became the first woman to be elected to Dublin corporation.
1800s Irish traveller and social reformer
A Republican from Essex County, she was one of the first two women elected to the New Jersey Assembly after women were granted the right to vote in 1920.
As a physician, she focused on women’s health issues, gaining admiration from her patients. As a women’s rights activist, Hunt challenged the boundaries that restricted women in education and in society.
American college professor, a founder of the town of Ruskin in Florida and co-founder and vice-president of Ruskin College
1800s American physician