1986: Dr. Stephanie Woolhandler helped found Physicians for a National Health Program, a not-for-profit organization for physicians, medical students, and other health care professionals who advocate a national health insurance program.
American oceanographer
Irish writer and activist
Puerto Rican woman who brought a legal case, Cardona v. Power (1966), for being denied suffrage due to her lack of English literacy.
Co-founder of CantoMundo, the US’s first organization of its kind to specifically cater to Latinx poets
Founder and executive director of Hawaiʻi Women in Filmmaking
Dr Katharine Marian Neril Maguire (1863-1931) was Ireland’s first female Paediatrician and a prize winning biology and medical student, who was primarily interested in social medicine.
US Senator and Representative from Wisconsin
For a quarter century in the House, America knew Mary T. Norton as “Battling Mary,” a reformer who fought for the labor and working-class interests of her urban New Jersey district.
Known as the “Mother of the ERA,” Martha Wright Griffiths, a peppery and quick-witted Detroit Representative, was a key figure in bringing women’s rights legislation to successful passage in Congress.