Margaret Hayes
Irish civil servant
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Dr Lorna Verdun Sisely
Dr Lorna Sisely was only the second person in Australia to receive a fellowship for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS).
Dr Laila B Haglund
Laila Haglund was an archaeologist who played a significant role in the framing of legislative protection for Aboriginal sites in Australia.
Aurora M Ocampo
Mexican literary researcher and academic
Dolores Batista
Tarahumara poet, essayist, translator, and social activist.
Judith Ellen Foster
Suffragist, temperance activist and lawyer who founded the Woman’s National Republican Association in 1888, declaring that “woman is politics.”
Emily Newell Blair
American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.
Marlo Thomas
American actress
Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson was a fifth-generation Mormon who became active in the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1977, Johnson co-founded Mormons for ERA. Her activism led to her excommunication from the LDS Church and influenced her decision to run for President.
Margaret Pender
Irish poet, novelist and political activist