Katharine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Over her more than 50-year career, she published novels, volumes of poetry and short story collections.
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Myra Davis Hemmings
Delta Sigma Theta, a service sorority for black women, was founded at Howard University in Washington, DC in 1912, with Myra Davis Hemmings of San Antonio elected as its first president.
Lakshmi Puri
Lakshmi Puri is a former Assistant Secretary-General at the United Nations and the former Deputy Executive Director of UN Women.
Irena Sawicka
Irena Scheur-Sawicka was a Polish archaeologist, ethnographer, and educational and communist activist who joined the Polish Workers’ Party during World War II.
Urani Rumbo
Urani Rumbo was an Albanian feminist, playwright and teacher who founded several associations promoting Albanian women’s rights.
Kimura Komako
Komako Kimura was a Japanese suffragist, actress, dancer, theater manager, and magazine editor before World War II.
Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Minnie Fisher Cunningham was an American suffrage activist, who was the first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters.
Mary Applebey
Mary Frances Applebey was an English civil servant and mental health activist.
Abigail Bush
Abigail Norton Bush was an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist who served as president of the Rochester Women’s Rights Convention, held in 1848 immediately after the Seneca Falls Convention.
Susan Fowler
Susan Joy Fowler is a writer and software engineer known for influencing institutional changes in how Uber and Silicon Valley companies respond to sexual harassment.