Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
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Lucy Burns
American suffragist
Mary Lasker
Medical philanthropist, political strategist, and health activist Mary Lasker acted as the catalyst for the rapid growth of the biomedical research enterprise in the United States after World War II.
Elizabeth Taylor
As one of the first women justices of the peace in Christchurch she was later made an associate magistrate to the Children’s Court. Within the Christchurch branch of the National Council of Women, Elizabeth Taylor promoted issues such as a motherhood endowment, women police, the right of married women to retain their own nationality, and women in politics.
Rachel Reynolds
New Zealand social worker, community leader
Maria Rye
Social reformer and a promoter of emigration from England, especially of young women living in Liverpool workhouses, to the colonies of the British Empire, especially Canada.
Mary Taylor
Although her ideas were considered less radical as the nineteenth century drew to a close, in her emphasis on the value of work for women and on the right of women to lead their own lives, Mary Taylor was more uncompromising than most feminists of her time.
Rosetta Baume
New Zealand teacher, feminist and community leader
Rhoda Bloodworth
New Zealand labour activist, community worker and feminist
Donna Grabarczyk
Founded an international help line called Women Against Sexual Harassment (WASH) for victims of sexual harassment