Dr Ethel Percy Andrus
Founder of the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
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Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1997 for her work to ban landmines through the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, which shared the prize with her that year.
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
One of five women who planned the women’s right convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in July 1848, she presided over numerous women’s rights and anti-slavery conventions.
Mary Ruthsdotter
American women’s rights activist
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