Dr Grace Abbott
American social worker and an influential advocate for children’s and immigrants’ rights in the early 1900s whose work significantly shaped social welfare policies in the United States.
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Esther Roper
Irish-English women’s rights activist Esther Roper fought for equal employment and voting rights for working-class women.
Mary Anderson
New Zealand politician
Josephine Roche
American humanitarian, labor activist, and businesswoman.
Dora Mayer
Self-taught researcher, writer, sociologist, journalist, social activist.
Mary Macarthur
Scottish suffragist and trade unionist
Moa Martinson
Prominent figure in Sweden’s proletarian literature
Edith Simcox
British philosopher, writer, trade union activist, and feminist.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
American labor leader, activist, and feminist. Flynn played a key role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and co-founded the American Civil Liberties Union.
May Palmer
New Zealand public servant, union official and equal pay campaigner