Helene Lange
Leader of the Teachers’ Association in Germany in the 1890s who founded courses for women to help them get into universities and edited Die Frau, a magazine for women.
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Gina Krog
A leader of the Norwegian feminist movement and editor of Nylænde.
Isabel Le Brun de Pinochet
Founder of the Lyceum Le Brun de Pinochet, a Chilean school for girls, in the year 1875.
Florence E Allen
The first female state supreme court judge in the US and one of the first two women federal judges.
Minna Canth
Authoress, social reformer, pioneer of the feminist movement in Finland.
Malak Hifni Nasif
Egyptian women’s rights activist
Mathilde Fibiger
Danish writer
Natalie Zahle
Danish feminist and educator
Minna Cauer
German pedagogue, activist in the feminist movement, pacifist and journalist.
Gertrude Denman
Director of the Women’s Land Army during the Second World War, and President of the Women’s Institute from 1917 – 1946.