Dr Belkis Valdman
Brazilian chemical engineer
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Phyllis Altman
As the secretary-general of the IDAF, Altman ran various secret operations to send money into South Africa to pay for lawyers in anti-apartheid cases.
Pamela dos Santos
South African political activist who worked extensively in Mozambique
Susan Stamberg
One of the “founding mothers” of NPR
Claudia Dale Goldin
Nobel-winning economist
Simone Veil
French magistrate, Holocaust survivor and politician who championed women’s rights and is remembered for the landmark 1975 law legalising abortion, the Veil Act (Loi Veil).
Gisella Perl
Romanian Jewish gynecologist deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, where she helped hundreds of women, serving as an inmate gynecologist.
Gloria Allred
American lawyer and activist
Abby Stein
American Jewish trans rights activist
Adele Goldberg
American computer scientist