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Pauline Léon

Léon is most remembered for her militancy and enthusiasm for taking action (often violent) to defend the French Revolution against the tyranny of the monarchy.

Presidents Díaz and later Huerta often imprisoned Dolores Jiménez y Muro, a socialist and political activist from Aguascalientes, for her work on many leftist journals, including La Mujer Mexicana, where she was a member of the editorial staff.

Blanche Grambs

American printmaker and social activist

Annie Kriegel

During WWII, Annie Kriegel joined a Communist Resistance group at age fifteen because no other groups would admit a member so young.

Mary Colbert

Mary Colbert (1890-1982) was a political activist for more than four decades and worked on JFK’s campaign.

Susan Walker Fitzgerald

The first woman Democrat elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature. Having worked actively in the statewide suffrage campaign, she was elected in 1922 and served one term.

Beryl Platt

Helped establish the Women Into Science and Engineering Year in 1984.

Pilar Careaga

Maria del Pilar Careaga is considered to have been Spain’s first female industrial engineer, but she also went on to have a significant political career, using her position to advance women’s opportunities, including the first women in Bilbao’s police force.

Ray Strachey

Started out to be an engineer but spent most of her life campaigning for women’s rights.

Maria de Lourdes Ruivo da Silva de Matos Pintasilgo

Chemical engineer and Portuguese politician. She was the first and to date only woman to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal, albeit for only 100 days, in 1979.