Dr Rukmini Devi Arundale
Indian dancer, activist and politician
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Reshma Saujani
With the help of Saujani’s program, Girls Who Code, the amount of girls in the technology field has drastically increased.
Leila Ahmed
Egyptian scholar, writer and women’s rights activist
Naaz Joshi
Naaz Joshi is India’s first transgender model and an international beauty queen, as well as a transgender rights activist
Savitribai Phule
Indian educator, social reformer, and poet, widely considered the first female teacher of modern India.
Maria Lacerda de Moura
Brazilian feminist and pacifist
Maria da Penha
Brazilian survivor of domestic violence who campaigned for legal changes that established stricter sentences for physical offenders, promotd rehabilitation programs for perpetrators, and offered 24-hour police stations and shelters for abused women.
Michela Murgia
Italian feminist writer and activist for the rights of women, the LGBTQIA+ community, and immigrants
Nadia Murad
Nobel-winning Iraqi human rights activist and survivor of ISIS
Narges Mohammadi
Nobel-winning Iranian human rights activist and writer