Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
One of five women who planned the women’s right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, she presided over numerous women’s rights and anti-slavery conventions.
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Leta Stetter Hollingworth
An early feminist and active member of the Women’s Suffrage Party, Leta Stetter Hollingworth is best known for her landmark contributions to the psychology of women and to education of the gifted, the latter culminating in two books, Gifted Children (1926) and Children Above IQ 180 (1942).
Clara González
Panamanian feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist Clara González became the first Panamanian woman to earn her Bachelor of Law Degree in 1922, the same year she established the Partido Nacional Feminista (PNF, National Feminist Party) to campaign for women’s rights and suffrage.
Nokukhanya Luthuli
Although she never became as public a figure as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and made a considerable contribution to her community and South Africa’s liberation struggle as a whole.
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
Nezihe Muhiddin
Trailblazing Turkish women’s rights activist, journalist, writer and political leader
Matilde Hidalgo
Ecuadorian physician, poet, and activist, the first woman to exercise the right to vote in Latin America, and the first to receive a Doctorate in Medicine.
Shidzue Katō
Japanese birth control and abortion rights activist
Dr Emily Stowe
Suffragist and the first female physician to practice medicine in Canada
Dr Encarnación Alzona
Filipina suffragist and historian