Vai Stanton
Aboriginal Australian welfare worker and elder of Kungarakany and Gurindji descent
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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.
Eleanor Alexander
A delegate from Armagh to the first meeting of the Women’s National Health Association of Ireland (April 1908), she was awarded the MBE (1918) for war work, having been in charge of an auxiliary military hospital.
Brenda Feigen
American attorney, women’s rights activist, and film producer known for her significant contributions to feminist legal advocacy.
Nellie McClung
Social activist, politician, author, and one of the most important figures in the Canadian suffragist movement.
Blanche Armwood
African-American educator, lawyer, and civil rights activist