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Te Rarawa woman of mana
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Margaret Byers
Irish educationist, suffragist, and philanthropist
Ngāwini Yates
Ngāwini and Samuel Yates ran a large farm and general store in the far north of New Zealand during the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Alice Allison Dunnigan
In 1961, President Kennedy acknowledged Alice Dunnigan as the first African American White House correspondent after two years of being ignored. She became the first Black woman in the Senate and House of Representatives press galleries.
Maria Pellegrina Amoretti
In 1777, after being rejected by the University of Turin, Maria Pellegrina Amoretti graduated at 21 in Iure utroque (civil and canon Law) at the University of Pavia, defending her doctoral theses.
Phoebe Cary
American poet and women’s rights activist
Dr Kate Waller Barrett
American physician, humanitarian, and social reformer
Abigail Goodrich Whittlesey
American philanthropist who supported mothers
Kate Clark
New Zealand community activist, artist and writer
Helen Black
New Zealand mayor