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Bertha Mkhize

South African teacher, trade unionist, anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, who gained legal emancipation as a feme sole operating a business in her own right.

Dr Almah J Frisby

Early 1900s American physician

Lee Minto (b. 1927), executive director of Planned Parenthood of Seattle-King County from 1967 until her retirement in 1993, played a key role in the campaign for Referendum 20, which legalized abortion in Washington state in 1970.

Keran Howe

It was a car accident in 1972 that led Keran Howe towards her lifelong dedication to women’s health and advocacy for the rights of people with disabilities, particularly women.

Mary Latimer McLendon

Mary Latimer McLendon, along with her older sister Rebecca Latimer Felton, was a leader in the prohibition and woman suffrage movements in Georgia (US state).

Julia Flisch

Julia Flisch was an advocate for young women’s rights, education, and independence. She strove to advance the cause of women’s higher education in Georgia (US state) during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Jane Fonda

Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.

Elsie Inglis

Elsie Inglis was both the product of and an agent for advances for women in medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Maud Gonne

Irish nationalist, political activist, and subject of most of the love poetry of W. B. Yeats

Mathilda Cecilia Allen

Mathilda Allen helped lead a drawn-out women’s suffrage campaign in Washington, culminating in 1910 with ratification of a right-to-vote amendment in the Washington State Constitution.