Rosario Orrego
Chilean poet
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Helen Wang
Early Chinese film producer, editor and director
Ida May Park
The 1916 Motion Picture News Studio Directory credits Los Angeles native Ida May Park with twelve years of stage experience as a “leading woman in support of well-known stars” and with screen experience at Pathé and the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, where she was then employed as a scenario writer.
Ruth Baldwin
Early film director, editor and writer
Alexandra Gripenberg
Finnish author and women’s rights activist
Jane Cunningham Croly
American author, and journalist, better known as Jennie June
Ursula Hicks
Ursula Kathleen Hicks was the first woman editor of a major journal, The Review of Economic Studies.
Edith Abbott
Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.
Frona Eunice Wait
American journalist
Zitkala-Ša
Zitkála-Šá (“Red Bird”), also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Native American musician, writer and activist who fought for women’s suffrage and Indigenous voting rights in the early 20th century. Her writings and activism led to citizenship and voting rights for not only women, but all Indigenous people.