Fanny Bullock Workman
American mountain-climber and explorer of the late 1800s
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Lader of the militant wing of the English suffrage movement.
Ellen Elizabeth Ferner
As a member of the Auckland Community Welfare Council when it formed in mid 1924, Ferner was involved in providing important support for the passage of the Child Welfare Act in 1925. This experience, and her wider work on children’s issues, culminated in her appointment as one of the first three associate members of the Children’s Court in 1926.
Sara Yorke Stevenson
American archaeologist; first woman to receive a Sc.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Albion Fellows Bacon
American reformer who secured for Indiana a tenement-house law
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American ethnologist, widely known in scientific circles as a worker for Native Americans.
Alva Belmont
American philanthropist and woman suffrage leader
Ophelia Settle Egypt
Ophelia Settle Egypt was a medical social worker and women’s rights advocate. She is remembered for many things, including her work to make women’s and reproductive healthcare accessible to the Black communities in Southeast Washington, DC. However, she was also critical in preserving the histories of formerly enslaved African Americans in the early twentieth century, fighting against preventable ailments in Black communities across the country, and for authoring a children’s book.
Thyra Avis Mary Acres
New Zealander Thyra Avis produced a comic strip and books featuring two pohutukawa fairies called Hutu and Kawa, which conveyed an understanding of ecology and a strong conservationist ethos.
Dorothy Hewett
Hewett’s frank and often personal depiction of female sexuality and strength was at times controversial, but cemented her reputation as a leading feminist, politically aware Australian writer who mastered many genres.