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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.

1800s Canadian educator, writer, lecturer, and adventurer

English viceregal consort in Canada and Ireland, feminist, social reformer, and author

Canadian suffragist

A pioneer of women’s rights, Idola Saint-Jean founded in 1927 the Canadian Alliance for the Women’s Vote in Quebec.

One of the seven founders of the Women’s Engineering Society in the UK

Irish Loreto sister and pioneer of women’s higher education

Mexican activist imprisoned several times for her work defending the rights of workers and the marginalized.

Candian labour activist

1900s Canadian feminist, poet, journalist, and independent woman