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Rosa Mary Barrett

Irish philanthropist, child-care worker, and suffragist

Noelle May Curtis Clery

Irish educational pioneer and entrepreneur

Gwen Burbidge

Australian matron, teacher, reformer, activist and advocate for nurses and nursing

Charlotte Grace O’Brien

Irish social reformer and writer

Mary Latimer McLendon

Mary Latimer McLendon, along with her older sister Rebecca Latimer Felton, was a leader in the prohibition and woman suffrage movements in Georgia (US state).

Mildred Chadsey

American social reformer

Hannah Maria Conant Tracy Cutler

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

Marie Remington Wing

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.

Sarah Cecilia Harrison

Irish painter and social campaigner; in 1912 she became the first woman to be elected to Dublin corporation.