Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Clara Collet
Collet was an educational trailblazer from her earliest days having attended the North London Collegiate School for Girls, an influential and important school which treated girls’ education seriously and taught topics usually only reserved for boys.
Josephine Ryan
Irish teacher and political activist
Mary E Garrett
American philanthropist who donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept women students “on the same terms as men”.
Soraya Tarzi
Queen Soraya Tarzi of Afghanistan pushed to modernise the country from the 1920s onward, promoting freedoms and rights for women.
Aïssata Kane
Mauritian political Aïssata Touré Kane served as the country’s first female government minister as part of President Moktar Ould Daddah’s cabinet from 1975 to 1978, when the government was overthrown by a military coup.
Elizabeth Nicholls
Elizabeth Nicholls was a highly important figure in the campaigns in South Australia and eventually, nationally, for restriction of the sale of alcohol and the movement to extend political rights from her base in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Emma Miller
Emma Miller played a vital part in the campaign for women’s suffrage in Queensland where she was perhaps the best known of a talented group of activists.
Phoebe Hearst
American philanthropist
Harriot Stanton Blatch
American social reformer