Sara Varley McCarthy

Ohio reporter and social welfare volunteer who helped organize the Cleveland Diocesan Council of the National Councl of Catholic Women in 1923, received a papal medal for distinguished service by a layperson to the Catholic Church in 1936.

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Dr Frene Ginwala

South African journalist and politician, the first speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa from 1994 to 2004. She was a key figure in the writing of the Constitution of South Africa and establishing democracy in South Africa.

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