Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
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Edith Van Horn
Labor leader with the United Auto Workers for decades
Hester C Jeffrey
American activist Hester C. Jeffrey was a suffragist and community organizer known for her work with the Political Equality Club, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.
Huda Sha’arawi
Pioneering Egyptian feminist leader and nationalist who founded the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, becoming a central figure in Egypt’s early feminist movement.
Frances Stewart
New Zealand women and children’s rights activist and the first female member of a New Zealand hospital board.
Isabella Tod
Irish feminist and reformer
Nathalie Lemel
Militant anarchist and feminist who participated on the barricades at the Commune de Paris of 1871
Dr Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
African American educator, writer, and scholar, remembered for her advocacy for African American women’s education and civil rights.
Mary Ritter Beard
Prominent American historian, author, and women’s suffrage activist.
Mary Macarthur
Scottish suffragist and trade unionist