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Irish nationalist and social advocate

Marjorie Jackson was the first Australian woman to win an Olympic gold medal in athletics in 1952.

In 1975, Mary Owen (1921-2017) and Sylvie Shaw co-founded the Working Women’s Centre.

Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist

Pulitzer-winning journalist

Margaret Tufts Swan Yardley (1844-1928) was a founding member and the first president of the New Jersey State Federation of Women’s Clubs.

Anne Cox Chambers was a media mogul, philanthropist, and former U.S. ambassador.

Viscountess Craigavon and Irish unionist

The first Indigenous person to be elected to the New South Wales parliament.

The first African American woman elected to the Georgia General Assembly