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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.

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.

Catherine Hilda Duleep Singh

Indian-British suffragist who helped save refugees fleeing the Holocaust

Chai Ling

Most noted for her leadership in the Tiananmen Square protests and her organizations that aid women and students, Chai Ling’s work has helped and inspired people all around the world.