Edith Waterworth
Australian welfare worker
Australian welfare worker
Australian social work educator and teacher
Australian businesswoman, equal opportunity practitioner, social worker and university chancellor
New Zealand feminist and suffragist
Irish medical practitioner and political activist
Irish republican, teacher, and trade unionist
Irish trade unionist and women’s rights advocate
Irish feminist and politician
One of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike, she was one of the most effective, professional organisers of the Women’s Social and Political Union working at various moments in Yorkshire (1909), Oxford (1910), Portsmouth and Southampton (1911-12).
With its attacks, the RZ tried to encourage women and girls to form gangs to fight back against the many forms of violence and abuse that they experienced in their everyday lives.