Jahanara Imam
Bangladeshi writer and political activist known for her work to bring war criminals to trial during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
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Rosario Castellanos
One of Mexico’s leading literary voices in the twentieth century
Matilde Hidalgo
Ecuadorian physician, poet, and activist, the first woman to exercise the right to vote in Latin America, and the first to receive a Doctorate in Medicine.
Na Hyesŏk
Korean activist, poet, journalist and painter
Gladys Thomas
Award-winning South African poet, playwright and short-story writer
Dr Encarnación Alzona
Filipina suffragist and historian
Edith Newman Devlin
20th century Irish lecturer in English
Dr Dora Akunyili
Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008
Doria Shafik
Eminent Egyptian feminist
Gisella Perl
Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist.