Ofelia Domínguez Navarro
Ofelia Domínguez Navarro was a Cuban writer, teacher, lawyer, feminist and activist who fought for the rights of women and illegitimate children.
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Una Vincenzo
Perhaps best known as the the long-time lesbian partner of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness, sculptor and translator Una Troubridge was an educated woman with achievements in her own right.
Ann Hui
Ann Hui On-wah, BBS MBE is a Hong Kong film director, producer, screenwriter and actress and one of the Hong Kong New Wave’s most critically acclaimed filmmakers.
Aasta Hansteen
Norwegian feminist writer and artist
Thérèse de Dillmont
In 1884 needleworker Thérèse de Dillmont left the embroidery school that she had started with her sister Franziska and moved to France, where she wrote her Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886).
Teréz Karacs
Teréz Karacs was a Hungarian writer, educator, memoirist and women’s rights activist.
Kartini
Kartini was an Indonesian national hero, a pioneer in the area of education for girls and women’s rights for Indonesians.
Andrea Villarreal
Andrea Villarreal was a teacher, poet, feminist, labor organizer, and revolutionary.
Aparna Nancherla
Aparna Nancherla is an American comedian and actor.
Lillemor Rachlew
Lillemor Rachlew was one of four Norwegians who were the first women to set foot on the Antarctic mainland in 1937, for whom the Four Ladies Bank in Prydz Bay was named.