Mary Perolz
Irish republican and trade unionist
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Margaret Skinnider
Irish republican, teacher, and trade unionist
Evelyn Owens
Irish trade unionist and women’s rights advocate
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton was the first woman appointed to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and continues to fight for DC statehood in her third decade as a congresswoman.
Mary Galway
Irish trade unionist
Margaret Bondfield
In 1929, she became Britain’s first female cabinet member.
Clara Collet
Collet was an educational trailblazer from her earliest days having attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls, an influential and important school which treated girls’ education seriously and taught topics usually only reserved for boys.
Gertude Tuckwell
The first woman to appear in the list of teachers in the London School of Economics Calendar is Gertrude Tuckwell in the School’s second year.
Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Inez McCormack
Irish human rights activist and trade unionist