Charlotte Despard
Irish suffragist, nationalist, socialist, and writer
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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
American poet and philanthropist
Susanne Day
Irish writer and suffragist
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie
Erihapeti Rehu-Murchie was a Ngāi Tahu (or Kāi Tahu) leader and woman of mana, and a prominent activist in the fields of Māori welfare and health from the 1970s to the 1990s. She was a long-serving member and president of the Māori Women’s Welfare League, and an acclaimed researcher in the area of Māori women’s health. She also served on the Human Rights Commission and in a wide variety of other public positions. An accomplished actor, singer and orator, she also composed waiata and poetry.
Anne Ward
Possibly her most notable achievement was to establish, almost single-handedly, a national organisation which would spearhead significant social and political reforms in New Zealand.
Kate Sheppard
New Zealand suffragist
Carol June Young Specht
Carol June Young Specht was a Past President of the local League of Women Voters, President of Women Against Rape (WAR), and co-founder of the Coles County Coalition Against Domestic Violence. She advocated with a passion for victims of rape and domestic violence during the mid-twentieth century.
Bernie Dwyer
Irish journalist, filmmaker and political activist
Jessie Mackay
Jessie Mackay’s crusading spirit informed her poetry, and her poetry is a record of all the causes she held dear.
Nan Clark
As one of the few women to gain a prominent position in the union hierarchy, Clark blazed a trail in the essentially masculine union world of mid-1900s New Zealand.