Politics Archives - Page 4 of 130

Chevalier d’Eon

The diplomat, soldier, and spy was notorious and scandalous long before they began presenting permanently as a woman in 1777

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The first woman to be elected head of state in modern Africa

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).

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.