Louie Bennett
Irish suffragist, trade unionist, and peace activist
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Aileen Anna Maria Garmson
Garmson was active on behalf of the unemployed, and supported the interests of women workers both within and outside the union. She persuaded the New Zealand Workers’ Union to endorse the organisation of women into trade unions, and proposed that a women’s branch of the NZWU be formed.
Helen Chenevix
Irish trade unionist, suffragist, and social campaigner
Alice Eleanor Cossey
As ATU secretary, Cossey was a leading advocate of higher wages for women. When she retired in 1945 she left behind a strong union which was the oldest surviving women’s union in New Zealand.
Cissie Cahalan
Irish trade unionist and suffragist
Ettie Annie Rout
Ettie Rout gained a public profile as a cyclist, vegetarian, freethinker and physical culturist.
Inez Milholland
American suffrage leader and lawyer.
Wendy Lowenstein
Wendy Lowenstein was a pioneer of oral history, giving a voice to the ordinary people who lived history. Lowenstein was also an activist who engaged in a life-long fight for social justice.
Zelda D’Aprano
Australian labour activist Zelda D’Aprano’s leadership was exercised by ‘fighting inequality and injustice through confronting employers, fellow male unionists and CPA office holders by speaking out, naming problems and working hard’.
Helen Marot
American labor leader