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Catherine Winter

Irish publicist and campaigner

Margaret Lynch

Irish-New Zealand servant accused of crimes by her employer, leading to a public uproar in her defense

Victorian English feminist and social reformer who campaigned for women’s suffrage, the right of women to better education, the end of coverture in British law, the abolition of child prostitution, and an end to human trafficking of young women and children into European prostitution.

Amy Hertz

Committed feminist and an advocate for women, children, the poor, and the elderly in the US.

Vai Stanton

Aboriginal Australian welfare worker and elder of Kungarakany and Gurindji descent

Sheelagh Murnaghan

Irish barrister and politician

Elizabeth Watts

Irish printer, stationer, and ‘bookseller to the courts of law’ in the 1700s

Madge Hobbs

Irish barrister and civil rights activist

Concepción Arenal

Spanish publicist and social worker

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Eleanor Holmes Norton was the first woman appointed to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and continues to fight for DC statehood in her third decade as a congresswoman.