Hafsa Sultan
During the Ottoman Empire’s so-called Sultanate of Women from 1534 to 1683, the valide sultans (mother of the ruling sultan) held much more power than they had as haseki sultans (wives of the ruling sultan).
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Barbara Weir
Aboriginal Australian artist
Dr Hilda Turnbull
Australian physician and politician
Judith Ellen Foster
Suffragist, temperance activist and lawyer who founded the Woman’s National Republican Association in 1888, declaring that “woman is politics.”
Emily Newell Blair
American suffragist and co-founder of the League of Women Voters.
Sonia Johnson
Sonia Johnson was a fifth-generation Mormon who became active in the campaign to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1977, Johnson co-founded Mormons for ERA. Her activism led to her excommunication from the LDS Church and influenced her decision to run for President.
Xochitl Torres Small
U.S. Representative from New Mexico
Catherine Marie Cortez Masto
U.S. Senator from Nevada
Margaret Pender
Irish poet, novelist and political activist
Margaret Moore
1700s and 1800s Countess Mount Cashell and writer