Dr Alice Hamilton
Alice Hamilton promoted “industrial medicine” and laws to protect employees from dangerous substances in the workplace.
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Hilary Boyle
Irish journalist, broadcaster, and activist
Jane Ewart-Biggs
British politician and President of the British Committee of UNICEF, later serving as the Labour Party’s spokesperson on home affairs, consumer affairs and overseas development.
Mary McCarthy
New Zealand teacher, temperance worker and political activist
Sally Low
New Zealand teacher, social reformer and peace campaigner
Elsie Andrews
New Zealand teacher and community leader
Sonja Loveday Davies
New Zealand nurse, labour activist, women’s rights activist, politician and peace campaigner
Una O’Higgins O’Malley
Irish peace and reconciliation activist
Esther Roper
Irish-English women’s rights activist Esther Roper fought for equal employment and voting rights for working-class women.
Rona Bailey
New Zealand communist and an organiser of protest movements, particularly against the Vietnam War, apartheid and racism.