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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.

Nennie Harken

Australian educator, pay equality activist and trade unionist

Dr Melnea Agnes Jones Cass

As a suffragist, clubwoman, and activist, Cass advocated for Boston’s most disadvantaged inhabitants.

Alice Lord sparked organization of the Seattle Waitresses Union, Local 240 (now Dining Employees Local #2) in March 1900, and orchestrated the union’s successful campaigns to promote landmark minimum wage and hour laws for working women.

Irene Levine Paull

Writer and activist Irene Levine Paull responded to discrimination by fighting for the rights of people who were oppressed.

Florence Rood

Florence Rood was one of the first Minnesota women activists in the Farmer Labor movement. She worked to improve the treatment of teachers and was active in their local and national organizations. Many of the successful struggles in which she participated informed the public of the importance of education and laid the groundwork for improved working conditions for educators.