Jane M Picker
Jane M. Picker co-founded the Women’s Law Fund to support litigation for Cleveland residents seeking legal redress in cases of sexual discrimination in employment, education, housing, and government benefits.
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Lizabeth Moody
Lizabeth Moody co-founded the Women’s Law Fund to support litigation for Cleveland residents seeking legal redress in cases of sexual discrimination in employment, education, housing, and government benefits.
Rita Page Ruess
Rita Page Ruess, the first woman assistant U.S. attorney in Cleveland, left her post to join the Women’s Law Fund full-time in 1972.
Agnes Deans Cameron
1800s Canadian educator, writer, lecturer, and adventurer
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon
English viceregal consort in Canada and Ireland, feminist, social reformer, and author
Jennie MacMichael
Canadian suffragist
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.
Janetta Mary Ornsby
One of the seven founders of the Women’s Engineering Society in the UK
Elizabeth Ryan
Irish Loreto sister and pioneer of women’s higher education
Benita Galeana
Mexican activist imprisoned several times for her work defending the rights of workers and the marginalized.