Mary Perolz
Irish republican and trade unionist
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Sheelagh Murnaghan
Irish barrister and politician
Margaret Skinnider
Irish republican, teacher, and trade unionist
Nuala Fennell
Irish feminist and politician
Annie S Swan
Scottish novelist whose sentimental fiction spoke to the nostalgia of a Scottish diaspora, evoking a way of life and set of values increasingly outmoded in the modern world.
Doris Lessing
Writer, ‘political agitator’ and Communist
Dorice Reid
Cook Islands businesswoman, judge and tourism official Dorice Reid was active for decades until her death in 2011, and held the title Te Tika Mataiapo.
Libbāli-šarrat
Queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in the 600s BCE
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton was the first woman appointed to chair the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and continues to fight for DC statehood in her third decade as a congresswoman.
Dr LaNada War Jack
LaNada War Jack is an indigenous activist, who since childhood, has fought to preserve Native American identity and tribal rights.