Maraea Mōrete
Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki woman of mana, writer
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Mary Bolton
Irish alcholism counsellor
Bertha Lutz
Notable Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat and played a key role in the Pan-American feminist and human rights movements. Her efforts were crucial in achieving women’s suffrage in Brazil.
Emanuella Carlbeck
Pioneering Swedish educator known for her work with students with intellectual disabilities. She founded the first institution for such students in Gothenburg in 1866, providing education and supportive home and asylum for patients.
Amelia Boynton Robinson
American activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. She played a crucial role in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches and later became a vice president at the Schiller Institute.
Ismat Chughtai
Indian Urdu writer known for novels, short stories, and films.
Irena Sendler
Vital member of the Polish Underground Resistance during World War II in German-occupied Warsaw, heading the children’s section of Żegota from October 1943.
Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai
Vietnamese revolutionary leader within the Indochinese Communist Party during the 1930s.
Dorothea Erxleben
Germany’s first female doctor.
Jeannette Rankin
In 1916, Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana.