Activism > Women's Rights Archives

Malvina Malinek

Malvina Malinek has advocated for the rights of women, in particular migrant and refugee women, at the local, national and international level in Australia.

Kathy Webb

Kathy Webb—the first openly gay member of the Arkansas General Assembly—has had a long career in private business, philanthropy, and local and state government.

Mabel McConnell

20th century Irish republican, suffragette, and socialist

Dr Fatema Mernissi

Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist

June Levine

20th century Irish feminist, journalist and author

Stella Courtright Stimson

Suffragist and clubwoman Stella Courtright Stimson was 50 when she decided to take down the corrupt Terre Haute, Indiana politician Donn Roberts in 1913.

Helen Gwynne-Vaughan was an acclaimed mycologist, King’s College graduate, and Head of the Botany Department (as well as first female professor) at Birkbeck College long before she joined the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War I, and was made chief controller of the women deployed to France.

Frances Keegan Marquis

Prior to volunteering for the U.S. Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps at age 45 in 1942, Frances Keegan Marquis had been an active suffragist who managed the Franklin Square House, a residential hotel in Boston offering housing and social services for around 700 women students and wage earners.

Alva Myrdal

Swedish diplomat, government minister, and author Alva Myrdal received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982 for her work advocating for nuclear disarmament.

Maggie Kuhn

Founder of The Gray Panthers