Pat O’Shane
Advocate for the rights of women and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Gisèle Halimi
Tunisian-born lawyer, feminist activist, and French politician
Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley was a trailblazinglawyer and judge whose contributions to both Black history and women’s history left a permanent mark on American society.
Mary Gaudron
Honourable Justice Mary Gaudron became the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia in 1987.
Flora Díaz Parrado
Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist
Larissa Behrendt
Indigenous Australian activist, filmmaker, academic, lawyer and writer
Amanda America Dickson
Amanda America Dickson, the daughter of an enslaved woman and her enslaver, became one of the wealthiest Black women in nineteenth-century America.
Neaera
Ancient Athenian courtesan
Penny Wong
Australian Labor Party politician Penelope Ying-Yen Wong became the longest-serving female cabinet minister in the history of the Australian Parliament on 6 March 2024.
Cornelia Oatman
In the 1970s, Cornelia Oatman filed a federal lawsuit against the Augusta, Georgia sheriff, jailer, and judge alleging civil rights violations in the death of her son.