Eleanor Butler
Irish senator, social campaigner, and architect
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Ettie Annie Rout
Ettie Rout gained a public profile as a cyclist, vegetarian, freethinker and physical culturist.
Kate Barnard
American philanthropist and social reformer.
Marie du Deffand
French social leader, whose salon during her long life was frequented by the most brilliant men and women of her time.
Anne of Austria
Queen of France
Kit Ahern
President of the Irish Countrywomen’s Association, senator and Teachta Dála
Dorothy Hewett
Hewett’s frank and often personal depiction of female sexuality and strength was at times controversial, but cemented her reputation as a leading feminist, politically aware Australian writer who mastered many genres.
Val Fraser
Val Fraser was an ‘outstanding member of the Communist Part of Queensland’. A clothing worker by trade, she was active on state, district and section committees of the CPQ, particularly in the 1940s and 50s, and a member of the women’s auxiliary of the Queensland Trades and Labour Council.
Hine-i-paketia
Hine-i-paketia was a leader of Heretaunga (Hawke’s Bay), and of the district extending south to the Manawatū Gorge, during the nineteenth century. She was publicly consulted by influential chiefs. She did not hesitate to speak at meetings and her name headed petitions to the governor.
Tini Whetu Marama Tirikatene-Sullivan
Whetū Tirikātene-Sullivan was New Zealand’s first Māori woman cabinet minister, its longest-serving woman MP, and a staunch advocate in Parliament for Māori interests. An accomplished academic, social worker, designer, sportswoman and dancer, she paved the way for women to combine a political career with motherhood.