Aoua Keïta
Aoua Keïta was a Malian midwife, activist, and politician, recognized as a prominent figure in Mali’s struggle for independence, trade unionism, and feminism.
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Alina Pienkowska
Alina Pienkowska was a nurse who played a significant role in the Solidarność movement against the communist regime in Poland.
Marija Jurić Zagorka
The first professional political journalist in Croatia and South East Europe, a women’s rights’ advocate, one of the most widely-read Croatian writers ever, a co-founder of the Croatian Journalists Association, a novelist, a playwright, a screenwriter, one of the early pioneers of science fiction, the founder of the first women’s trade union organization in Croatia.
Ellen Mulcahy
Early twentieth-century Labor activist based in Melbourne.
Fay Marles
Australian businesswoman, equal opportunity practitioner, social worker and university chancellor
Delia Larkin
Irish trade unionist
Rosie Hackett
Irish trade unionist
Kay McDowell
Irish trade union leader
Annie M P Smithson
Irish author, nurse, republican and trade unionist
Helena Molony
Irish actress, republican, trade unionist and feminist