Katharine Dexter McCormick
Trailblazing U.S. suffragist, philanthropist, and visionary. Her groundbreaking contributions paved the way for the development of the first birth control pill.
Category Archives: Activism
Continue reading
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor, and advocate for women’s rights; the first scientist to propose the idea of the greenhouse effect.
Jeanette Berglind
Swedish founder of Tysta Skolan, a school for deaf/mute children
Mary Ann Lake Wallis
New Zealand orphanage matron
Katarina Kuini Wharerauaruhe Te Tau
Ngāi Tahu leader, welfare worker, community leader
Maata Te Taiawatea Rangitūkehu
Tūhourangi and Ngāti Awa woman of mana
Grace Rhys
Irish author, editor, and poet
Florence Ada Mary Lamb Polson
New Zealand women’s rights activist and writer
Maraea Mōrete
Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki woman of mana, writer
Mary Bolton
Irish alcholism counsellor