Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the senior US Representative from Florida, the first Latina elected to the US Congress, and the first Republican in congress to publicly support the passage of the marriage equality act.
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Vida Jane Goldstein
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, Goldstein became the face of Australian feminism.
Edith Dircksey Cowan
Edith Cowan’s remarkable leadership in overcoming obstacles to women’s public participation was forged through personal tragedy.
Phyllis Benjamin
Representing Tasmania on the party’s Federal Executive, she was the only woman amongst the ’36 faceless men’ depicted in 1963 as controlling the Party, although her presence went largely unnoticed in contemporary coverage.
Margaret Edgeworth McIntyre
During the war as the deputy president of the Launceston Women’s Voluntary National Register, McIntyre was responsible for organising training schemes for women who wanted to be involved in the war effort. Her wartime experiences led her to argue for women to have ‘more say in the running of the country’.
Christine Milne
Australian environmental activist and politician
Louise Crossley
Scientist and environmentalist Louise Crossley (1942 – 30 July 2015) was closely involved in the establishment of the Tasmanian Greens and the Global Greens.
Iriaka Matiu Rātana
New Zealand politician Iriaka Rātana was to serve in the House for 20 years. She was an unusual politician in her early years, unsophisticated yet eloquent, gentle and invariably polite.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
The first woman to run for president and the first female stock broker on Wall Street, Victoria Woodhull achieved remarkable success in finance, journalism, and politics. A spiritualist, suffragist, and free love advocate, Woodhull was an iconoclast who fought for her beliefs no matter how controversial they were at the time.
Ismat ad-Din Khatun
ʿIṣmat ad-Dīn Khātūn was the daughter of a regent of Damascus, and wife of two of the 12th century’s greatest Muslim generals, Nur ad-Din and Saladin.