Gisella Perl
Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist.
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Grazia Deledda
The first Italian woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Eileen Chang
Chinese-American essayist, novelist, and screenwriter
Jade Snow Wong
Chinese-American ceramicist and writer
Anna Letitia Waring
1800s British hymn writer and poet
Beatrice Vio
Italian Paralympic fencing champion and activist
Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
Vociferous in the fight for equality, she remains a feminist role model and inspiration through the ages, planting the seeds for an end to traditionalism and the birth of female liberation in India and Bangladesh.
Chai Ling
Most noted for her leadership in the Tiananmen Square protests and her organizations that aid women and students, Chai Ling’s work has helped and inspired people all around the world.
Alice Schalek
Austrian journalist, writer, editor, photographer and novelist
Anna Chandy
In 1959, Anna Chandy changed history by becoming the first female high court judge of India as well as the whole of the (then) British commonwealth.