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Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon

English viceregal consort in Canada and Ireland, feminist, social reformer, and author

Idola Saint-John

A pioneer of women’s rights, Idola Saint-Jean founded in 1927 the Canadian Alliance for the Women’s Vote in Quebec.

Benita Galeana

Mexican activist imprisoned several times for her work defending the rights of workers and the marginalized.

Janetta Mary Ornsby

One of the seven founders of the Women’s Engineering Society in the UK

Laura Elizabeth McCully

1900s Canadian feminist, poet, journalist, and independent woman

Bess Bolden Walcott

American educator, librarian, museum curator and activist who helped establish the historical significance of the Tuskegee University.

Elisabeth Freeman

British-American women’s rights, civil rights and labor rights activist

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.

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).