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).
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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
Alice Schalek
Austrian journalist, writer, editor, photographer and novelist
Ruth B Seid
Award-winning American novelist
Wallis Annenberg
Since becoming chairman of the board, president, and CEO of the Annenberg Foundation in 2009, Wallis Annenberg has helped transform and bolster the arts and humanities in public life, especially in her adopted home of Los Angeles.
Gladys Noon Spellman
Gladys Noon Spellman rose through the ranks of Maryland politics to become an influential advocate for the federal workforce in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Judith Marx Wieder
Cleveland, Ohio businesswoman