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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.

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.