Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American labor leader, activist, and feminist. Flynn played a key role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Helen Laird
Irish actress, costumier, teacher, and feminist
May Palmer
New Zealand public servant, union official and equal pay campaigner
Hilda Tweedy
Irish activist for women’s rights and in consumer affairs
Xiang Jingyu
Ttrailblazing figure in the early history of the Chinese Communist Party and a pioneering force in the women’s rights movement in China.
Shulamith Firestone
Canadian-American radical feminist, central to shaping early radical feminism and the second-wave movement.
Isabelle Gatti de Gamond
Belgian educationalist, feminist, and politician.
Laudelina de Campos Melo
Afro-Brazilian activist and labor organizer.
Lee Hyo-jae
Prominent South Korean sociologist and feminist scholar.
Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.