Founded the 9to5 organization to fight for working women’s rights. They successfully fought for the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, and many more national policies that prohibit workplace discrimination and harassment.
Bangladeshi writer and political activist known for her work to bring war criminals to trial during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Khunying Kanitha Wichiencharoen was a women’s rights activist and lawyer who later became a Mae Chee (female monastic in Thailand).
Chinese feminist and LGBTQIA+ rights activist
Fawzia Koofi is an Afghan politician, a human rights advocate, a writer, and a women’s rights activist.
South African anti-apartheid activist
Sicilian woman who became famous in the 1960s in Italy for refusing a “rehabilitating marriage” to her rapist. She is considered the first Italian woman to publicly do so.
Chinese lawyer, human rights advocate and women’s rights activist
Chinese feminist and anarchist
Nobel-winning Filipina journalist and human rights activist