Shidzue Katō
Japanese birth control and abortion rights activist
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Simone Veil
French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).
Rosario Castellanos
One of Mexico’s leading literary voices in the twentieth century
Franziska Tiburtius
1800s German physician
Doria Shafik
Eminent Egyptian feminist
Gloria Allred
American lawyer and activist
Dr Emily Stowe
Suffragist and the first female physician to practice medicine in Canada
Dr Encarnación Alzona
Filipina suffragist and historian
Eunice Hunton Carter
One of New York’s first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States.
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.