Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Indian independence activist
Indian independence activist
Irish doctor, academic and nationalist
1870: Martinique, French West Indies. An eighteen-year-old pregnant black woman leads a group of her peers in the first worker’s protests since the abolition of slavery in 1848.
Committed feminist and an advocate for women, children, the poor, and the elderly in the US.
Irish librarian and republican
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.
New Zealander who fought for the release of her imprisoned husband
Peace and human rights activist
Pioneering Austrian feminist and social reformer.
Australian social work educator and teacher