Grace Lorch
President of the Boston Teachers Union and the first teacher to appeal the rule that teachers must resign if they got married.
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Suzanne Revaleon Green
Boston women teacher who successfully challenged the 1880s School Committee regulation that women resign upon marriage
Adelaide Anderson
Although not an engineer by training and not the very first of the Lady Factory Inspectors, Dame Adelaide Anderson became one of the best known and had close connections with the Women’s Engineering Society at its outset in the final years of her own career.
Julia O’Connor
A successful and nonviolent strike of 8,000 women telephone operators in April 1919, led by Julia O’Connor, paralyzed telephone service in five New England states for six days.
Mary Morton Kehew
Mary Morton Kehew led the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union from 1892 until her death in 1919.
Mary Kenney O’Sullivan
Suffragist and one of the principal founders of the National Women’s Trade Union League in 1903.
Emily Greene Balch
Balch won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her indefatigable work for peace, in particular with the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).
Rose Finkelstein Norwood
Indefatigable union activist and organizer.
Joan Bielski
Bielski was a founding member of the Women’s Electoral Lobby and of the NSW Women in Education group (1973-1994), a feminist organisation, whose slogan was Educate to Liberate.
Belinda Morieson
Belinda Morieson was Branch Secretary of the Australian Nursing Federation, Victoria Branch (ANF(Vic)) from 1989-2001.