Mary Ruthsdotter
American women’s rights activist
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Anna Cope Hartshorne
Co-founder of Tsuda College for women in Tokyo, Japan in 1900
Leta Stetter Hollingworth
An early feminist and active member of the Women’s Suffrage Party, Leta Stetter Hollingworth is best known for her landmark contributions to the psychology of women and to education of the gifted, the latter culminating in two books, Gifted Children (1926) and Children Above IQ 180 (1942).
Rostyslava Nychay Bohachevsky
Activist in the Ukrainian Women’s League, travelling through villages, setting up kindergartens, and health and legal-aid cooperatives.
Rhoda Eyth
She studied to become a braillist and produced many volumes of Braille books for people to enjoy, including textbooks for blind school children.
Dr Mary Booth
Australian physician, educator and welfare worker
Annie Gardner Barr
Canadian artist and social reformer
Anna Teresa Brennan
Australian Catholic lay leader, social reformer, solicitor and women’s rights activist
Anne Fraser Bon
Scottish-Australian philanthropist
Fiona Smith
Australian disability rights activist and lawyer