Mary Anne Müller
New Zealand’s pioneer suffragist
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Kathleen Gertrude Hurd-Wood
Activist for the hard of hearing in New Zealand.
Rūmātiki Ruth Wright
Fostered Māori pre-school education by setting up playcentres and reviving other community organisations in rural centres. The playcentres in the Waikato–Maniapoto district were among the first to encourage use of the Māori language, foreshadowing the kohanga reo scheme.
Radegund of Poitiers
Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, founder of a scholarly abbey
Pandita Saraswati Ramabai
Advocate for the education of women and the abandonment of the custom of child marriages
Miriam Leslie
That a woman of such business ability, and with heavy responsibilities, should be at the same time a society leader, is a marvel of versatility.
Sabiha al-Shaikh Da’ud
Women’s rights activist Sabiha al-Shaikh Da’ud was one of Iraq’s first female lawyers.
Concepción Felix
Feminist, lawyer, social reformer and human rights activist Concepción Felix Roque founded one of the Philippines’s first women’s organisations, Asociación Feminista Filipina, and one of the first humanitarian organisations, La Gota de Leche, focused on the well-being of mothers and their children.
Pauline Sperry
Pauline Sperry was an American mathematician who worked in projective differential geometry.
Mary Somerville
Mary Somerville wrote many works which influenced Maxwell. Her discussion of a hypothetical planet perturbing Uranus led Adams to his investigation. Somerville College in Oxford was named after her.