Marjorie Chambers
New Zealand nursing pioneer
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Ellenor Watson
New Zealand community leader
Janet Fraser
Her lifelong concern for the poor and disadvantaged and her lively interest in health matters and women’s concerns made her an important adviser to her politician husband.
Hilda Rollett
New Zealand teacher, journalist and writer
Kahe Te Rau-o-te-rangi
Māori Te Āti Awa leader, trader, innkeeper
Grace Gifford
Irish cartoonist and republican
Mildred Trent
Described as ‘one of the best known, most public-spirited, and most useful women in Canterbury’.
Eva Gore-Booth
Irish poet, mystic, trade unionist and suffragist
Jetsun Pema
In 2011, Jetsun Pema (རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་) was crowned Druk Gyaltsuen – the Dragon Queen of Bhutan – and is currently the world’s youngest queen consort.
Myrna Mack
Myrna Mack Chang was a respected Guatemalan anthropologist who was stabbed to death in 1990 by members of the Guatemalan military due to her criticism of the government’s treatment of the indigenous Maya and human rights abuses.