Emilia Dilke
British author, art historian, feminist, and trade unionist.
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Katharine Dexter McCormick
Trailblazing U.S. suffragist, philanthropist, and visionary. Her groundbreaking contributions paved the way for the development of the first birth control pill.
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor, and advocate for women’s rights; the first scientist to propose the idea of the greenhouse effect.
Bertha Lutz
Notable Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat and played a key role in the Pan-American feminist and human rights movements. Her efforts were crucial in achieving women’s suffrage in Brazil.
Jeannette Rankin
In 1916, Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana.
Dr Mary Strangman
Irish doctor and suffragist
Mary Agnes Chase
American botanist specializing in agrostology, the study of grasses.
Eva Gore-Booth
Irish poet, mystic, trade unionist and suffragist
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a prominent figure in Nigeria, known for her roles as an educator, political activist, suffragist, and advocate for women’s rights.
Emma Brignell Ostler
New Zealand teacher, prohibitionist, landowner, businesswoman