Fukuda Hideko
Prominent Japanese feminist activist devoted to socialist and feminist causes.
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Dr Alice Bunker Stockham
Obstetrician and gynecologist from Chicago and the fifth woman to become a doctor in the United States.
Caroline Still Anderson
Pioneering physician in the Philadelphia African-American community and one of the first Black women to become a physician in the United States.
Hilde Radusch
German political activist engaged in anti-fascist resistance.
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Trailblazing U.S. suffragist, philanthropist, and visionary. Her groundbreaking contributions paved the way for the development of the first birth control pill.
Eunice Newton Foote
American scientist, inventor, and advocate for women’s rights; the first scientist to propose the idea of the greenhouse effect.
Jeanette Berglind
Swedish founder of Tysta Skolan, a school for deaf/mute children
Mary Ann Lake Wallis
New Zealand orphanage matron
Katarina Kuini Wharerauaruhe Te Tau
Ngāi Tahu leader, welfare worker, community leader
Maata Te Taiawatea Rangitūkehu
Tūhourangi and Ngāti Awa woman of mana