Nina Zagat
Co–founder of the eponymous Zagat guide
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Jayne Rowse
In 2012, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse filed a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s ban that prevented same-sex couples like DeBoer and Rowse from jointly adopting their children.
Edith Windsor
Edie Windsor was in her 80s when she sued the U.S. government. Her wife, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. The following year, Windsor received a $363,000 tax bill—estate taxes that, had the government recognized their marriage, would have been nonexistent.
April DeBoer
In 2012, April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse filed a lawsuit challenging Michigan’s ban that prevented same-sex couples like DeBoer and Rowse from jointly adopting their children.
Judith Ellen Foster
Suffragist, temperance activist and lawyer who founded the Woman’s National Republican Association in 1888, declaring that “woman is politics.”
Xochitl Torres Small
U.S. Representative from New Mexico
Catherine Marie Cortez Masto
U.S. Senator from Nevada
Lois Jenson
Plaintiff in the U.S.’s first class-action sexual harassment lawsuit
Florence Stoker
Literary executor and wife of Bram Stoker
Lynn Schenk
The daughter of working–class immigrants, Democrat Lynn Schenk won a hotly contested election in a majority Republican district to become the first woman to represent San Diego, California, in the U.S. House of Representatives.