Jeannette Rankin
In 1916, Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana.
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Ramona Bennett
American Puyallup leader and advocate whose indomitable spirit ignited the 1960s and 1970s Fish Wars in the US Pacific Northwest.
Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte
Pioneering Native American doctor from the Omaha tribe. She made history as the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, and she tirelessly campaigned for public health and land rights for the Omaha tribe.
Yamada Waka
Prominent Japanese feminist who advocated social reform during Japan’s late Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras.
Ismat Chughtai
Indian Urdu writer known for novels, short stories, and films.
Marie Fleming
Irish campaigner for assisted suicide
Dr Mary Strangman
Irish doctor and suffragist
Hine-i-tūrama Ngātiki
Ngāti Whakaue woman of mana
Hīria Kokoro-Barrett
Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Māmoe woman of mana, craftswoman, mutton-birder
Eveline Cunnington
New Zealand women’s rights activist and social reformer