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women's rights Women's rights are the rights and Entitlement (fair division), entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st c ...

activists are as follows, arranged alphabetically by modern country names and by the names of the persons listed:

Afghanistan

Amina Azimi Amina Azimi is an advocate for disability, disabled women's rights in Afghanistan. In 2012 she won the N-Peace Awards, N-Peace Award. Biography Born in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Azimi lost her right leg at age 11 as a result of her home being h ...

– disabled women's rights advocate * Hasina Jalal – women's empowerment activist * Quhramaana Kakar – Senior Strategic Advisor for Conciliation Resources *

Masuada Karokhi Masuada Karokhi is an Afghan peace activist, women's rights advocate, and recipient of the N-Peace Award in 2013. Karokhi twice ran to be a member of the Lower House for Herat, in 2005 and 2010. She won in 2010. References External links A st ...

(born 1962) – Member of Parliament and women’s rights campaigner

Albania

Parashqevi Qiriazi Parashqevi Qiriazi (Paraskevi D. Kyrias) (27 May 1886 – 17 December 1970) was an Albanian teacher of the Qiriazi family who dedicated her life to the Albanian alphabet and to the instruction of written Albanian language. She was a woman partic ...

(1880–1970) – teacher *

Sevasti Qiriazi Sevasti Qiriazi-Dako (Sevasti D. Kyrias) (ca. 1871–1949) was an Albanians, Albanian patriot, educator, Protestant missionary, author, pioneer of Albanian female education, and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. Life and early career ...

(1871–1949) – pioneer of female education * Urani Rumbo (1895–1936) – feminist, and playwright

Algeria

Aïcha Lemsine Lemsine, the pen name of Aïcha Laidi (born 1942), is an Algerian writer writing in French. She was born near Tébessa and is an advocate for women's rights. She has been vice-president of the Women's World Organization for Rights, Literature, ...

(born 1942) – French-language writer and women's rights activist * Ahlam Mosteghanemi (born 1953) – writer and sociologist

Argentina

Lucía Alberti Lucía N. Alberti (born 13 December 1944), is an Argentine radical feminist and politician. She is a leader of the Unión Cívica Radical (UCR). She was a national deputy for the Unión Cívica Radical (1985-1989), leader of the Permanent Ass ...

(born 1944) – radical feminist and politician *

Virginia Bolten Virginia Bolten (1870–1960) was an Argentine journalist and anarchist feminist activist. An anarchist agitator from an early age, she became a leading figure among the working women of Rosario, organising for the Argentine Regional Workers' ...

(1870–1960) – Argentine journalist as well as an anarchist and feminist activist of German descent * Raymunda Torres y Quiroga – 19th-century Argentine writer and women's rights activist *

Azucena Villaflor Azucena Villaflor (7 April 1924 – 10 December 1977) was an Argentine activist and one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights organisation which looks for the victims of enforced disappearances during Argentina's Di ...

(1924–1977) – social activist, a founder of the human rights association

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo () is an Argentina, Argentine human rights association formed in response to abuses by the National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla. Initially the association worked to find ...

Australia

* Thelma Bate (1904–1984) – community leader, advocate for inclusion of Aboriginals in

Country Women's Association The Country Women's Association (CWA) is a women's organisation in Australia, which seeks to advance interests of women, families, and communities in Australia, especially those in rural, regional, and remote areas. It comprises seven indep ...

Rosie Batty Rosemary Anne "Rosie" Batty (born 1962) is an Australian domestic violence campaigner. She became a campaigner in 2014, after her 11-year-old son Luke Batty was murdered by his father, Greg Anderson. As a campaigner, she has spoken publicly ab ...

(born 1962) – 2015

Australian of the Year The Australian of the Year is a national award conferred on an Australian citizen by the National Australia Day Council, a not-for-profit Australian Government-owned social enterprise. Similar awards are also conferred at the state and territor ...

and family violence campaigner *

Eva Cox Eva Maria Cox (née Hauser; born 21 February 1938) is an Austrian-born Australian writer, feminist, sociologist, social commentator and activist. She has been an active advocate for creating a "more civil" society. She was a long-term member o ...

(born 1938) – sociologist and feminist active in politics and social services, member of Women's Electoral Lobby, social commentator on women in power and at work, and social justice * Zelda D'Aprano (1928–2018) – trade unionist, feminist, in 1969 chained herself to doors of Commonwealth Building over equal pay *

Louisa Margaret Dunkley Louisa Margaret Dunkley (28 May 1866 – 10 March 1927) was an Australian telegraphist and labor organizer who successfully campaigned for the right for women to obtain equal pay for equal work in the Australian commonwealth public service. ...

(1866–1927) – telegraphist and labour organizer *

Elizabeth Evatt Elizabeth Andreas Evatt (born 11 November 1933), an eminent Australian reformist lawyer and jurist who sat on numerous national and international tribunals and commissions, was the first Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia, the f ...

(born 1933) – legal reformist, jurist, critic of Australia's Sex Discrimination Act, first Australian in

United Nations Commission on Human Rights The United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) was a functional commission within the United Nations System, overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006. It was a ...

Miles Franklin Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 187919 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel ''My Brilliant Career'', published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While s ...

(1879–1954) – writer and feminist *

Vida Goldstein Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (pron. ) (13 April 186915 August 1949) was an Women's suffrage in Australia, Australian suffragist and social reformer. She was one of four female candidates at the 1903 Australian federal election, 1903 federal election ...

(1869–1949) – early Australian feminist campaigning for women's suffrage and social reform, first woman in British Empire to stand for national election *

Germaine Greer Germaine Greer (; born 29 January 1939) is an Australian writer and feminist, regarded as one of the major voices of the second-wave feminism movement in the latter half of the 20th century. Specializing in English and women's literature, she ...

(born 1939) – author of ''

The Female Eunuch ''The Female Eunuch'' is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement. Greer's thesis is that the "traditional" suburban, consumerist, nuclear family represses women sexual ...

'', academic and social commentator *

Bella Guerin Julia Margaret Guerin Halloran Lavender (23 April 1858 in Williamstown, Colony of Victoria – 26 July 1923 in Adelaide, South Australia), known popularly as Bella Guerin, was an Australian feminist, women's rights activist, women's suffr ...

(1858–1923) – first woman to graduate from an Australian university, Guerin was a prominent socialist feminist (although with periods of public dispute) within the

Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is the major Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia and one of two Major party, major parties in Po ...

Louisa Lawson Louisa Lawson (née Albury; 17February 184812August 1920) was an Australian poet, writer, publisher, Suffragette, suffragist, and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson. Early life Louisa Albury was born on 17 Februa ...

(1848–1920) – feminist, suffragist, author, founder of The Dawn, pro-republican federalist *

Fiona Patten Fiona Heather Patten (born May 1964) is an Australian politician. She was the leader of Reason Australia (also known as the Reason Party) and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council between 2014 and 2022, representing the Northern Met ...

(born 1964) – leader of Australian Sex Party, lobbyist for personal freedoms and progressive lifestyles * Eileen Powell (1913–1997) – trade unionist, women's activist and contributor to the Equal Pay for Equal Work decision *

Millicent Preston-Stanley Millicent Preston-Stanley (9 September 1883 – 23 June 1955) was an Australian feminist and politician who served as the first female member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. In 1925, she became the second woman to enter government ...

(1883–1955) – first female member of

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

, campaigner for custodial rights of mothers in divorce and for women's health care * Elizabeth Anne Reid (born 1942) – world's first women's affairs adviser to head of government (

Gough Whitlam Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975. To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being ...

), active in the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is the Earth, global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the Charter of the United Nations, UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the stated purpose of maintaining international peace and internationa ...

and on HIV * Bessie Rischbieth (1874–1967) – earliest female appointee to any court (honorary, Perth Children's Court, 1915), active against the Australian government practice of taking Aboriginal children from their mothers (

Stolen Generation The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church mis ...

) *

Jessie Street Jessie Mary Grey Street (née Lillingston; 18 April 1889 – 2 July 1970) was an Australian diplomat, suffragette and campaigner for Indigenous Australian rights. She was referred to as "Red Jessie" by the Australian media, due to her support fo ...

(1889–1970) – Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner influential in labour rights and early days of the UN *

Anne Summers Anne Summers (born 12 March 1945) is an Australian writer and columnist, best known as a leading feminist, editor and publisher. She was formerly First Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Status of Women in the Department of the Prime Min ...

(born 1945) – women's rights activist in politics and media, women's advisor to Labor premier

Paul Keating Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician and trade unionist who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996. He held office as the leader of the Labor Party (ALP), having previously ser ...

, editor of ''Ms.'' magazine (NY) * Mary Hynes Swanton (1861–1940) – Australian women's rights and trade unionist

Austria

* Auguste Fickert (1855–1910) – feminist and social reformer * Marianne Hainisch (1839–1936) – activist, exponent of women's right to work and education *

Bertha Pappenheim Bertha Pappenheim (27 February 1859 – 28 May 1936) was an Austrian-Jewish feminist, a social pioneer, and the founder of the Jewish Women's Association (). Under the pseudonym Anna O., she was also one of Josef Breuer's best-documented pat ...

(1859–1936) – Austrian-Jewish feminist, founder of the German Jewish Women's Association

Belgium

* Marguerite Coppin (1867–1931) – female Poet Laureate of Belgium and advocate of women's rights * Joséphine Nyssens Keelhoff (1833–1917) – Belgian temperance and women's rights activist, feminist, editor *

Christine Loudes Dr. Christine Marie-Helene Loudes (1972 - 2016) was a human rights lawyer who worked to achieve social change for justice and equality. She was a noted human rights activist who dedicated much of her academic and professional life to campaigning ...

(1972–2016) – proponent of gender equality and women's rights *

Frédérique Petrides Frédérique Petrides (pronounced peh TREE dis), (September 26, 1903 – January 12, 1983), was a Belgians, Belgian-United States, American conductor and violinist. In 1933, she founded and conducted the Orchestrette Classique in New York City, N ...

(1903–1983) – Belgian-American pioneer female orchestral conductor, activist and editor of ''

Women in Music Women in music play many roles and are responsible for a broad range of contributions in the industry. They continue to help shape movements, genres, and trends as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, and mu ...

'' * Marie Popelin (1846–1913) – lawyer, feminist campaigner, leader of the Belgian League for Women's Rights

Benin

* Dossi Sekonou Gloria Agueh – founder and president of the Network of Women Leaders for Development

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Indira Bajramović Indira Bajramović is a Roma activist and economist who has been working to improve the condition of Roma women in Bosnia and Herzegovina for over 20 years. She is the director of the Association of Roma Women 'Better Future' (local name 'Bolja ...

– Roma activist, director of the Association of Roma Women from

Tuzla Tuzla (, , ) is the List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, third-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 110,979 inha ...

Botswana

Unity Dow Unity Dow ( Diswai; born 23 April 1959) is a Motswana lawyer, author, human rights activist and Member of Parliament for Kgatleng West since November 2024. She formerly served as a judge on the High Court of Botswana and in various Botswa ...

(born 1959) – judge and writer, plaintiff in case allowing children of mixed parentage to be deemed nationals

Brazil

* Clara Ant (born 1948) – architect and political activist for the

Partido dos Trabalhadores The Workers' Party (, PT) is a Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Brazil, political party in Brazil that is currently the country's ruling party. Some scholars classify its ideology in the 21st century as social demo ...

Márcia Campos Márcia de Campos Pereira is a Brazilian activist who since the 1970s has fought for improvements in citizen's democratic rights, especially those for women. In particular, she helped to organize the Brazilian Democratic Movement, including its wom ...

(fl. 1970s) – democratic rights activist, president of the Women's International Democratic Federation * Albertina de Oliveira Costa (born 1943) – feminist activist, member of the Conselho Nacional dos Direitos da Mulher (National Council for Women's Rights) * Jaqueline Jesus (born 1978) –

LGBT rights Rights affecting lesbian, Gay men, gay, Bisexuality, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the Capital punishmen ...

activist * Lily Marinho (1921–2011) –

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador is an official postnominal honorific title, title of authority, legal status and job description assigned to those goodwill ambassadors and advocates who are designated by the United Nations. UNESCO goodwill ambas ...

for Brazil from 1999 TO 2011 *

Míriam Martinho Míriam Martinho (born 1954) is one of the leading Feminism, feminists in Brazil and part of the second generation of feminist journalists, who emerged in the 1980s. She was one of the first people to bring lesbianism openly into the fold of femi ...

(born 1954) – leading feminist journalist and LGBT rights activist, known for her pioneering in

Lesbian Feminism Lesbian feminism is a cultural movement and critical perspective that encourages women to focus their efforts, attentions, relationships, and activities towards their fellow women rather than men, and often advocates lesbianism as the logica ...

* Laudelina de Campos Melo (1904–1991) – created the first trade association for domestic workers in Brazil * Lucia Nader (born 1977) – human rights activist * Matilde Ribeiro (born 1960) – political activist, feminist and part of the anit-racism movement in Brazil, as well as former Chief Minister of SEPPIR, a government agency promoting racial equality in Brazil * Alzira Rufino (born 1949) – feminist, part of both the Black Movement and the Black Women's Movement * Heleieth Saffioti (1934–2010) – feminist activist and

sociology Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of Interpersonal ties, social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. The term sociol ...

professor * Miêtta Santiago (1903–1995) – suffragist, feminit activist, writer and poet *

Viviane Senna The Instituto Ayrton Senna (English: Ayrton Senna Institute; IAS) is a Brazilian non-governmental organization, intended to help create opportunities for human development to young Brazilians in cooperation with businesses, governments, municipa ...

(born 1957) – president of the Instituto Ayrton Senna * Yara Yavelberg (1943–1971) – university lecturer and part of the resistance against

military dictatorship in Brazil The military dictatorship in Brazil (), occasionally referred to as the Fifth Brazilian Republic, was established on 1 April 1964, after a 1964 Brazilian coup d'état, coup d'état by the Brazilian Armed Forces, with support from the United Stat ...

Bulgaria

* Dimitrana Ivanova (1881–1960) – educational reformer and suffragist * Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1947) – suffragist and women's rights activist * Anna Karima (1871–1949) – suffragist and women's rights activist * Eugenia Kisimova (1831–1885) – feminist, philanthropist, women's rights activist *

Kina Konova Kina Konova () (Sevlievo, September 1872- Sofia, 2 May 1952), born Kina Mutafova, was a Bulgarian educator, translator, publicist, suffragist and women's rights activist. She was a co-founder and leader of the first local women's socialist organiza ...

(1872–1952) – publicist and suffragist * Julia Malinova (1869–1953) – suffragist and founder of the Bulgarian Women's Union

Burkina Faso

* Catherine Ouedraogo (born 1962) – social activist and environmental protection advocate

Canada

Edith Archibald Edith Jessie Archibald (7 April 1854 – 11 May 1936) was a Canadian suffragist and writer who led the Maritime Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), National Council of Women of Canada and the Local Council of Women of Halifax. For her many ...

(1854–1936) – suffragist, writer, promoter of Maritime

Women's Christian Temperance Union The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far ...

National Council of Women of Canada National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ...

and Local Council of Women of Halifax * Laura Borden (1861–1940) – president of the Local Council of Women of Halifax *

Thérèse Casgrain Marie Thérèse Casgrain (; 10 July 1896 – 3 November 1981) was a French-Canadian feminist, reformer, politician and senator. She was a leader in the fight for women's right to vote in the province of Quebec, as well as the first woman t ...

(1896–1981) – suffragette, reformer, feminist, politician and senator, mainly active in Quebec *

Françoise David Françoise David (; born January 13, 1948) is a former spokesperson of Québec solidaire – a left-wing, feminist, and sovereigntist political party in the province of Quebec, Canada. She was elected to serve as the Member of the National As ...

(born 1948) – politician, feminist activist * Emily Howard Stowe (1831–1903) – physician, advocate of women's inclusion in medical profession, founder of

Canadian Women's Suffrage Association The Canadian Women's Suffrage Association, originally called the Toronto Women's Literary Guild, was an organization based in Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that fought for Women's Rights in Canada, women's rights. After the association had ...

* Marie Lacoste-Gérin-Lajoie (1867–1945) – suffragette, self-taught jurist *

Nellie McClung Nellie Letitia McClung (; 20 October 18731 September 1951) was a Canadian author, politician, and social activist, who is regarded as one of Canada's most prominent suffragists. She began her career in writing with the 1908 book ''Sowing Seed ...

(1873–1951) – feminist and suffragist, part of

The Famous Five (Canada) The Famous Five (), also known as The Valiant Five, and initially as The Alberta Five, were five prominent Canadian suffragists who advocated for women and children: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and ...

* Jamie McIntosh (21st century) – lawyer and women's rights activist * Eliza Ritchie (1856–1933) – prominent suffragist, executive member of Local Council of Women of Halifax * Léa Roback (1903–2000) – feminist and workers' union activist tied with communist party *

Idola Saint-Jean Idola Saint-Jean (May 19, 1880 – April 6, 1945) was a Quebec journalist, educator and feminist. She devoted her life to the pursuit of equal rights for women in Quebec and her efforts lead to women being given the right to vote in Quebec in ...

(1880–1945) – suffragette, journalist * Mary Two-Axe Earley (1911–1996) – indigenous women's rights activist

Cape Verde

* Isaura Gomes (born 1944)

Chad

* Lydie Beassemda (born c. 1967) * Céline Narmadji (born 1964) * Halima Yakoy Adam (born 2000)

Chile

* Alicia Herrera Rivera (1928–2013) – feminist lawyer and minister of the Court of Appeals of Santiago * María Rivera Urquieta (born 1894) – professor and feminist

China

Cai Chang Cai Chang (; EFEO: ''Ts'ai Tch'ang''; 14 May 1900 – 11 September 1990) was a Chinese politician and women's rights activist who was the first chair of the All-China Women's Federation, a Chinese women's rights organization. Early life Cai ...

(1900–1990) – politician, first chair of the

All-China Women's Federation The All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) is a women's rights people's organization established in China on 24 March 1949. It was originally called the All-China Democratic Women's Foundation, and was renamed the All-China Women's Federation in 195 ...

Chen Xiefen Chen Xiefen ( Chinese: 陳擷芬; pinyin: chén xié fēn; Wade-Giles: ch'en hsieh fen; pen name: Chu‘nan nūzi; 1883 – 1923), a Chinese feminist, revolutionary and journalist of the Qing era, is regarded as one of the first progressive Chi ...

(1883–1923) – feminist, revolutionary and journalist * Fok Hing-tong (1872–1957) *

He Xiangning He Xiangning (; 27 June 1878 – 1 September 1972) was a Chinese revolutionary, feminist, politician, painter, and poet. Together with her husband Liao Zhongkai, she was one of the earliest members of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary movement Tongm ...

(1878–1972) * Huixing (educator) (1871–1905) *

Jiang Shufang Jiang Shufang ({{zh, c=江漱芳, 1867-1928) was a Chinese school pioneer. She belonged to a rich family but was forced to support her spouse, his parents and children alone because her husband refused to work. In 1897 sold her jewelry and founded ...

(1867–1928) – school pioneer * Li Maizi (born 1989) * Lin Zongsu (1878–1944) * Liu-Wang Liming (1897–1970) *

Lü Jinghua Lü Jinghua (; born 1960) is a Chinese dissident and activist, and was a key member of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation (BWAF) during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. The BWAF was the People's Republic of China's (PRC) first inde ...

(born 1960) * Mao Hengfeng (born 1961) * Miao Boying * Nurungul Tohti (born 1980) * Qiu Yufang (1871–1904) * Wan Shaofen (born 1930) * Wang Huiwu (1898–1993) * Wei Tingting (born 1989) *

Xiang Jingyu Xiang Jingyu (, – , ''née'' Xiang Junxian), was one of the earliest female members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), widely regarded as a pioneer of the women's movement of China. Xiang sought to unite the various women's movements in ...

* Xie Xuehong (1901–1970) *

Ye Haiyan Ye Haiyan (born 1975) is a Chinese gender activist, best known for her action in favor of women, prostitutes, and children against violence and sexual aggression. She exposed the harsh conditions of local brothels, in which sex workers were sexu ...

(born 1975) * Zheng Churan

Colombia

* Juana de J. Sarmiento (1899–1979), Colombian politician, activist * Miriam Margoth Martínez (born 1966) human rights defender

Croatia

* Jelica Belović-Bernardzikowska (1870–1946) *

Marija Jurić Zagorka Marija Jurić (; 2 March 1873 – 30 November 1957), known by her pen name Zagorka (), was a Croatians, Croatian journalist, writer and women's rights activist. She was the first female journalist in Croatia and is among the most read Croatian wr ...

(1873–1957)

Democratic Republic of Congo

Julienne Lusenge Julienne Lusenge is a human rights activist from the Democratic Republic of the Congo recognized for advocating for survivors of wartime sexual violence. She is co-founder and President of Female Solidarity for Integrated Peace and Development (S ...

– women's activist recognized for advocating for survivors of wartime sexual violence

Denmark

* Sophie Alberti (1846–1947) – pioneering women's rights activist and a leading member of

Kvindelig Læseforening Kvindelig Læserforening ( English: Women Readers' Association) was a membership-based, private library for women which existed from 1872 until 1945 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Its former building on Gammel Mønt (No. 1) is designed by Ulrik Plesner ...

(Women Readers' Association) * Widad Akrawi (born 1969) – writer and doctor, advocate for gender equality,

women's empowerment Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several method, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, equal status in society, ...

and participation in peace-building and post-conflict governance * Johanne Andersen (1862–1925), active in Funen and in the Danish Women's Society * Ragnhild Nikoline Andersen (1907–1990) – trade unionist, Communist party politician and Stutthof prisoner *

Signe Arnfred Signe Arnfred (born 1944) is a Danish sociologist, feminist and writer who in 1971 became closely involved in Danish feminist activities. A leading figure in the Red Stocking Movement, she organized and participated in meetings and seminars which ...

(born 1944), sociologist specializing in gender studies * Matilde Bajer (1840–1934) – women's rights activist and pacifist * Annestine Beyer (1795–1884) – pioneer of women's education * Anne Bruun (1853–1934) – schoolteacher and women's rights activist * Esther Carstensen (1873–1955) – women right's activist, journal editor, active in the Danish Women's Society * Severine Casse (1805–1898) – women's rights activist, successful in fighting for a wife's right to dispose of her earnings *

Karen Dahlerup Karen Marie Dahlerup Andersen (1920–2018) was a Danish women's rights activist and a politician representing the Social Democrats. Keen to support equal treatment of men and women, she served as editor of the party's magazine ''Frie Kvinder'' bef ...

(1920–2018), women's rights activist and politician *

Ulla Dahlerup Ulla Dahlerup (born 1942) is a Danish journalist, writer and women's rights activist. She was one of the most prominent members of the Danish Red Stocking Movement in the early 1970s, an episode she used as a basis for her 1979 novel ''Søstrene' ...

(born 1942) – writer, women's rights activist, member of the Danish Red Stocking Movement * Thora Daugaard (1874–1951) – women's rights activist, pacifist, editor * Henni Forchhammer (1863–1955) – educator, feminist, peace activist * Inger Gamburg (1892–1979) – trades unionist, Communist politician *

Suzanne Giese Suzanne Giese (1946–2012) was a Danish writer and women's rights activist. She was one of the prominent members of the Danish Red Stocking Movement in the early 1970s. In 1973, together with her husband , she established the Tiderne Skifter publ ...

(1946–2012) – writer, women's rights activist, prominent member of the Red Stocking Movement *

Bente Hansen Bente Hansen (4 March 1940April 2022) was a Danish writer, editor and women's rights activist who was a prominent supporter of the Danish Red Stocking Movement from 1970. She published a number of books on socialism and the role of women and was ...

(born 1940) – writer, supporter of the Red Stocking Movement * Eline Hansen (1859–1919) – feminist and peace activist * Eva Hemmer Hansen (1913–1983) – writer and feminist * Estrid Hein (1873–1956) – ophthalmologist, women's rights activist, pacifist * Dagmar Hjort (1860–1902) – schoolteacher, writer, women's rights activist *

Thora Ingemann Drøhse Thora Ingemann Drøhse née Nielsen (1867–1948) was a Danish Temperance movement, temperance campaigner and women's rights activist. After being inspired to fight for abstention from alcohol by the priest Julius Ifversen (1863–1927), she was a ...

(1867–1948) – temperance campaigner and women's rights activist in Randers * Katja Iversen (born 1969) – author, advisor, women's rights advocate, President of Women Deliver 2014-2020 * Thyra Jensen (1865–1949) – writer and women's rights activist in southern Schleswig * Erna Juel-Hansen (1845–1922) – novelist, early women's rights activist * Lene Koch (born 1947), gender studies researcher * Anna Laursen (1845–1911) – educator, head of the Aarhus branch of the Danish Women's Society * Anna Lohse (1866–1942), Odense schoolteacher and women's rights activist *

Line Luplau Line Luplau (1823–1891) was a Danish feminist and suffragist. She was the co-founder of the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund or DKV (Danish Women's Society Suffrage Union) and first chairperson in 1889–1891. Life Line Luplau was born ...

(1823–1891) – feminist, suffragist, founder of the Danish Women's Suffrage Society * Elisabeth Møller Jensen (born 1946) – historian, feminist, director of

Kvinfo The Danish Center for Research on Women and Gender (KVINFO) is a Danish information center about women's issues. It primarily aims to provide the general public with information about the results of women's studies and gender research underta ...

from 1990 to 2014 * Thora Knudsen (1861–1950), nurse, women's rights activist and philanthropist *

Nynne Koch Anna Lise (Nynne) Koch (1915–2001) was a Danish feminist, writer and a pioneering researcher in gender studies. After publishing novels in the 1950s, she joined the Royal Danish Library in 1961 where she paved the way for establishing Kvinfo, the ...

(1915–2001), pioneering women's studies researcher * Else Moltke (1888–1986), writer and leader of women's discussion group in Copenhagen * Elna Munch (1871–1845) – feminist, politician, co-founder of the Danish Association for Women's Suffrage *

Louise Nørlund Marie Sørine ''Louise'' Nørlund (1854–1919) was a Danish feminist and pacifist. She was the founder and chairman of the Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund or DKV (the Danish Women's Society's Suffrage Union) in 1898–1907 and 1908–19 ...

(1854–1919) – feminist, pacifist, founder of the Danish Women's Suffrage Society * Birgitte Berg Nielsen (1861–1951) – equal rights activist, educator * Charlotte Norrie (1855–1940) – nurse, women's rights activist, voting rights campaigner * Voldborg Ølsgaard (1877–1939) – women's rights and peace activist * Tania Ørum (born 1945) – women's research activist, literary historian * Thora Pedersen (1875–1954) – educator, school inspector, women's rights activist who fought for equal pay for men and women * Johanne Rambusch (1865–1944) – feminist, politician, co-founder of the radical suffrage association ''Landsforbundet for Kvinders Valgret'' * Caja Rude (1884–1949), novelist, journalist and women's rights activist * Vibeke Salicath (1861–1921) – philanthropist, feminist, editor, politician * Astrid Stampe Feddersen (1852–1930) – chaired first Scandinavian meeting on women's rights * Karen Syberg (born 1945) – writer, feminist, co-founder of the Red Stocking Movement * Caroline Testman (1839–1919) – feminist, co-founder of

Dansk Kvindesamfund The Danish Women's Society or DWS () is Denmark's oldest women's rights organization. It was founded in 1871 by activist Matilde Bajer and her husband Fredrik Bajer; Fredrik was a Member of Parliament and the 1908 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. The ...

* Ingeborg Tolderlund (1848–1935) – women's rights activist and suffragist * Clara Tybjerg (1864–1941) – women's rights activist, pacifist * Anna Westergaard (1882–1964) – railway official, trade unionist, women's rights activist, politician * Louise Wright (1861–1935) – philanthropist, feminist, peace activist * Natalie Zahle (1827–1913) – pioneer of women's education * Else Zeuthen (1897–1975) – Danish pacifist, women's rights activist and politician

East Timor

Magdalena Bidau Soares Magdalena Bidau Soares is an East Timorese peace activist and recipient of the N-Peace Award in 2013. In 1975 Soares was forced to flee her village during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor The Indonesian occupation of East Timor be ...

– ex-guerrilla, peace activist

Ecuador

Rosa Zárate y Ontaneda Rosa Zárate y Ontaneda (1763 - July 17, 1813), also known simply as Rosa Zárate, was an Ecuadorian feminist involved in the Ecuadorian independence movement during the 19th century. Biography Rosa Zárate was the illegitimate child of Marian ...

(1763–1813) – feminist and independence activist

Egypt

Qasim Amin Qasim Amin (, ; 1 December 1863 – 12 April 1908)Political and diplomatic history of the Arab world, 1900-1967, Menahem Mansoor was an Egyptian jurist, Islamic Modernist and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and Cairo Uni ...

(1863–1908) – jurist, early advocate of women's rights in society * Soraya Bahgat (born 1983) – Egyptian-Finnish women's rights advocate, social entrepreneur and founder of Tahrir Bodyguard * Ihsan El-Kousy (born 1900) – headmistress, writer and rights activist * Nawal el-Saadawi (1931–2021) – writer and doctor, advocate of women's health and equality * Entisar Elsaeed (fl. 2000s) – activist fighting female genital mutilation and domestic abuse * Engy Ghozlan (born 1985) – coordinator of campaigns against

sexual harassment Sexual harassment is a type of harassment based on the sex or gender of a victim. It can involve offensive sexist or sexual behavior, verbal or physical actions, up to bribery, coercion, and assault. Harassment may be explicit or implicit, wit ...

* Hoda Shaarawi (1879–1947) – feminist organizer of Mubarrat Muhammad Ali (women's social service organization), Union of Educated Egyptian Women, and Wafdist Women's Central Committee, founder president of

Egyptian Feminist Union The Egyptian Feminist Union () was the first nationwide feminist movement in Egypt. History and profile The Egyptian Feminist Union was founded at a meeting on 6 March 1923 at the home of activist Huda Sha'arawi, who served as its first president ...

Estonia

* Elisabeth Howen (1834–1923) – women's educational pioneer

Finland

* Hanna Andersin (1861–1914) – educator, feminist * Soraya Bahgat (born 1983) – see Egypt * Elisabeth Blomqvist (1827–1901) – pioneering female educator *

Minna Canth Minna Canth (; born Ulrika Wilhelmina Johnson; 19 March 1844 – 12 May 1897) was a Finnish writer and social activist. Canth began to write while managing her family draper's shop and living as a widow raising seven children. Her work address ...

(1844–1897) – writer, women's rights proponent *

Adelaïde Ehrnrooth __NOTOC__ Lovisa Adelaïde Ehrnrooth (17 January 1826 – 31 May 1905) was a Finnish feminist and writer. Adelaïde Ehrnrooth was born in Nastola, one of the 16 children of an aristocratic family.''Suomen kulttuurihistoria'', p. 59. Editor in c ...

(1826–1905) – feminist, writer, early fighter for voting rights *

Alexandra Gripenberg Alexandra Gripenberg, also known as Alexandra van Grippenberg, (1857 – 24 December 1913) was a Finnish social activist, author, editor, newspaper publisher, and elected politician, and was a leading voice within the movement for women's rights ...

(1857–1913) – writer, women's rights activist, treasurer of the

International Council of Women The International Council of Women (ICW) is a women's organization working across national boundaries for the common cause of advocating women's rights, human rights for women. In March and April 1888, women leaders came together in Washington D.C ...

Lucina Hagman Lucina Hagman (5 June 1853, Kälviä – 6 September 1946, Helsinki) was an early Finnish feminist and among the first female MPs in the world due to the 1907 Finnish parliamentary election. Life and career Hagman was the daughter of police mas ...

(1853–1946) – feminist, politician, pacifist, president of the League of Finnish Feminists * Rosina Heikel (1842–1929) – feminist, first medical doctor in Finland * Alma Hjelt (1853–1907) – gymnast, women's rights activist, chair of the Finnish women's association ''Suomen Naisyhdistyksen'' * Hilda Käkikoski (1864–1912) – suffragist, writer, schoolteacher, early politician

France

* Isnelle Amelin (1907–1994) – feminist and trade unionist from La Réunion *

Hubertine Auclert Hubertine Auclert (; 10 April 1848 – 4 August 1914) was a leading French feminist and a campaigner for women's suffrage. Early life Born in the Allier '' département'' in the Auvergne area of France into a middle-class family, Hubertine Aucl ...

(1848–1914) – feminist activist, suffragette *

Simone de Beauvoir Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ; ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she ...

(1908–1986) – philosopher, writer * Marie-Thérèse Lucidor Corbin (1749–1834) – French Creole activist and abolitionist in the

French colonies From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire existed mainly in the Americas and Asia. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the second French colonial empire existed mainly in Africa and Asia. France had about 80 colonie ...

Charles Fourier François Marie Charles Fourier (; ; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of his views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have be ...

(1772–1837) – philosopher *

Françoise Giroud Françoise Giroud (born Lea France Gourdji; 21 September 1916 – 19 January 2003), was a French journalist, screenwriter, writer, and politician. Biography Giroud was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to immigrant Sephardi Turkish Jewish parents; ...

(1916–2003) – journalist, writer, politician *

Olympe de Gouges Olympe de Gouges (; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 17483 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and Abol ...

(1748–1793) – playwright and political activist who wrote the 1791

Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, Feminism in France, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in res ...

* Blanche Moria (1858–1927) – sculptor, educator, feminist * Ndella Paye (born c. 1974) – Senegal-born militant Afro-feminist and Muslim theologian * Maria Pognon (1844–1925) – writer, feminist, suffragist, pacifist * Alphonse Rebière (1842–1900) – author of ''Les Femmes dans la science'' and advocate for women's scientific abilities *

Léonie Rouzade Léonie Rouzade, born Louise-Léonie Camusat (1839–1916) was a French feminist, politician, journalist and author. An active supporter of women's rights, in 1880 together with Eugénie Pierre, she founded the ''Union des femmes'', the first soci ...

(1839–1916) – journalist, novelist, feminist *

Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (born ''Anne-Josèphe Terwagne''; 13 August 1762 – 8 June 1817) was a Belgian singer, orator and organizer in the French Revolution. She was born at Marcourt, in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège (from whic ...

(1762–1817) – politician *

Flora Tristan Flore Célestine Thérèse Henriette Tristán y Moscoso (7 April 1803 – 14 November 1844), better known as Flora Tristan, was a French-Peruvian writer and socialist activist. She made important contributions to early feminist theory, and argue ...

(1803–1844) French-Peruvian activist, early advocate of socialism and feminism *

Louise Weiss Louise Weiss (25 January 1893 – 26 May 1983) was a French author, journalist, feminist, and European Union, European politician. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1971 Nobel Peace Prize, 1971 and for the Nobel Prize in Literatur ...

(1893–1983) – journalist, writer, politician

Germany

* Jenny Apolant (1874–1925) – Jewish feminist, suffragist * Ruth Bré (c. 1862/67–1911) – writer, advocate of

matrilineality Matrilineality, at times called matriliny, is the tracing of kinship through the female line. It may also correlate with a social system in which people identify with their matriline, their mother's lineage, and which can involve the inheritan ...

and

, founder of ''Bund für Mutterschutz'' (League for Maternity Leave) *

Johanna Elberskirchen Johanna Elberskirchen (11 April 1864 in Bonn – 17 May 1943 in Rüdersdorf) was a feminist writer and activist for the rights of women, gays and lesbians as well as blue-collar workers. She published books on women's sexuality and health among ...

(1864–1943) - feminist and activist for women's rights, gays and lesbians * Johanna von Evreinov (1844–1919) – Russian-born German feminist writer, pioneering female lawyer and editor * Lida Gustava Heymann (1868–1943) – feminist, pacifist and women's rights activist * Luise Koch (1860–1934) – educator, women's rights activist, suffragist, politician *

Helene Lange Helene Lange was born in 1848 in Oldenburg (city), Oldenburg. Through her determination, she rose above the trials of her early life, including the loss of her parents, to become a leading voice for women's access to higher education and professio ...

(1848–1930) – educator, pioneering women's rights activist, suffragist * Sigrid Metz-Göckel (1940–2025) – sociologist, gender studies academic * Ursula G. T. Müller (born 1940) – sociologist, gender studies academic *

Louise Otto-Peters Louise Otto-Peters (26 March 1819, Meissen – 13 March 1895, Leipzig) was a German suffragist and women's rights movement activist who wrote novels, poetry, essays, and libretti. She wrote for ''Der Wandelstern'' he Wandering Starand ''Sächsisc ...

(1819–1895) – suffragist, women's rights activist, writer *

Alice Salomon Alice Salomon (19 April 1872 – 30 August 1948) was a German social reformer and pioneer of social work as an academic discipline. Her role was so important to German social work that the ''Deutsche Bundespost'' (German post office) issued a co ...

(1872–1948) – social reformer, women's rights activist, educator, writer *

Käthe Schirmacher Käthe Schirmacher (Danzig, 6 August 1865 – Meran, 18 November, 1930) was a German writer, journalist, and political activist who was considered to be one of the leading advocates for women's rights and Feminism, the international women's move ...

(1865–1930) – early women's rights activist, writer *

Auguste Schmidt Auguste Schmidt, full name Friederike Wilhelmine Auguste Schmidt (3 August 1833 – 10 June 1902) was a German pioneering feminist, educator, journalist and women's rights activist. Life Schmidt was born on 3 August 1833 in Breslau, German Empir ...

(1833–1902) – pioneering women's rights activist, educator, journalist *

Alice Schwarzer Alice Sophie Schwarzer (born 3 December 1942) is a German journalist and prominent feminist. She is founder and publisher of the German feminist journal '' EMMA''. Beginning in France, she became a forerunner of feminist positions against anti-ab ...

(born 1942) – journalist and publisher of the magazine ''Emma'' * Gesine Spieß (1945–2016), educationalist specializing in gender studies * Marie Stritt (1855–1928) – women's rights activist, suffragist, co-founder of the International Alliance of Women * Johanna Vogt (1862–1944) – suffragist, first woman on the city council of

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in North Hesse, northern Hesse, in Central Germany (geography), central Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel (region), Kassel and the d ...

starting in 1919. * Marianne Weber (1870–1954) – sociologist, women's rights activist, writer *

Clara Zetkin Clara Zetkin (; ; ''née'' Eißner ; 5 July 1857 – 20 June 1933) was a German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the Inde ...

(1857–1933) – Marxist theorist, women's rights activist, suffragist, politician

Ghana

* Annie Jiagge (1918–1996) – lawyer, judge, women's rights activist, drafted

Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women Declaration may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Declaration'' (book), a self-published electronic pamphlet by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri * ''The Declaration'' (novel), a 2008 children's novel by Gemma Malley Music ...

, co-founded

Women's World Banking Women's World Banking is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to women's economic empowerment through financial inclusion. __TOC__ Mission and vision As an NGO, Women's World Banking (WWB) partners with financial institutions and policymak ...

Greece

* Kalliroi Parren (1861–1940) – founder of the Greek women's movement *

Avra Theodoropoulou Avra Theodoropoulou (; 3 November 1880 – 20 January 1963) was a Greek music teacher, pianist, suffragist and women's rights activist. She founded the Greek League for Women's Rights, League for Women's Rights in 1920 and served as its chairperso ...

(1880–1963) – music critic, pianist, suffragist, women's rights activist, nurse

Greenland

* Aviâja Egede Lynge (born 1974), educator, activist for indigenous peoples and women's rights * Henriette Rasmussen (1950–2017), educator, journalist, women's rights activist and politician

Haiti

* Léonie Coicou Madiou (1891–1974), political activist, feminist, educator

Hungary

* Clotilde Apponyi (1867–1942) – suffragist *

Enikő Bollobás Enikő Bollobás (born June 19, 1952 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian literary scholar, professor at the School of English and American Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She is a corresponding me ...

(born 1952) – academic specializing in women's studies * Vilma Glücklich (1872–1927) – educational reformer and women's rights activist * Teréz Karacs (1808–1892) – writer and women's rights activist *

Rosika Schwimmer Rosika Schwimmer (; 11 September 1877 – 3 August 1948) was a Hungarian-born pacifist, feminist, world federalist and women's suffragist. A co-founder of the Campaign for World Government with Lola Maverick Lloyd, her radical vision of world ...

(1877–1948) – feminist, suffragist, World Peace Prize (1937) * Éva Takács (1780–1845) – writer and feminist * Blanka Teleki (1806–1862) – feminist and advocate of female education * Pálné Veres (1815–1895) – founder of Hungarian National Association for Women's Education

Iceland

Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason (14 December 1867 – 30 October 1941) was an Icelandic politician, suffragist, schoolteacher and gymnast. She was the first woman to become a member of the Althing, the parliament of Iceland. Early life and education In ...

(1867–1941) – politician, suffragist, schoolteacher, gymnast *

Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir Bríet Bjarnhéðinsdóttir (September 27, 1856 – March 16, 1940) was an early Icelandic advocate for women's liberation and women's suffrage. She founded the first women's magazine in Iceland, ''Kvennablaðið''. For a period of time she serv ...

(1856–1940) – activist for women's liberation and women's suffrage *

Þórunn Jónassen Þórunn Jónassen, also Þórunn Hafstein Pétursdóttir (1850–1922) was an Icelandic feminist, the first chair of Thorvaldsensfélagið (Thorvaldsen's Society), Iceland's oldest women's association, a post she maintained for 47 years. She was ...

(1850–1922) – active member of the women's movement * Katrín Magnússon (1858–1932) – promoter of women's voting rights and women's education

India

* Angellica Aribam (born 1992) – political activist, founder of Femme First Foundation * Annie Basil (1911–1995) – Iranian-Indian activist for Armenian women * Yogita Bhayana – Indian anti-sexual violence activist and head of People Against Rape in India * Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954) – Irish-Indian

suffragist Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to vo ...

, established

All India Women's Conference The All India Women's Conference (AIWC) is a non-governmental organisation ( NGO) based in Delhi. It was founded in 1927 by Margaret Cousins in order to improve educational efforts for women and children and has expanded its scope to also tack ...

, co-founded

Irish Women's Franchise League The Irish Women's Franchise League was an organisation for women's suffrage which was set up in Dublin in November 1908. Its founder members included Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Margaret Cousins, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington and James H. Cousins. Tho ...

* Madhusree Dutta (born 1959) – co-founder of Majlis, Mumbai, author, cultural activist, filmmaker, curator *

Rehana Fathima Rehana Fathima, also known as Suryagayathri, is an Indian women's rights activist from Kerala. She has a background in telecommunications and modeling, and has participated in various protests against moral policing and sexism. Fathima gained w ...

(born 1986) – women's rights activist * Ruchira Gupta (born 1964) – journalist and activist. She is the founder of Apne Aap, a non-governmental organization that works for women's rights and the eradication of sex trafficking * Nazli Gegum (1874–1968) – Indian girl education activist *

Kirthi Jayakumar Kirthi Jayakumar (born 15 December 1987) is a peace educator, a Security Council Resolution 1325, women, peace, and security and feminist foreign policy practitioner, lawyer and List of Indian writers, writer. She is a Commonwealth Scholarship ...

(born 1987) – founder of The Red Elephant Foundation, rights activist, campaigner against violence against women *

Shruti Kapoor Shruti Kapoor (born 25 September) is an Indian economist, women's rights activist, and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of Sayfty, an initiative that aims to educate and empower young women and girls against all forms of violence. E ...

– women's rights activist, economist, social entrepreneur * Sunitha Krishnan (born 1972) – Indian social activist, co-founder of Prajwala which assists trafficked women, girls and transgender people in finding shelter, education and employment *

Subodh Markandeya Subodh Markandeya is a senior Indian lawyer, author and judicial activist. He primarily practices at the Supreme Court of India, but also appears in various high courts. He has served as the standing counsel for Government of India, Life Insu ...

– senior advocate *

Swati Maliwal Swati Maliwal (born 15 October 1984) is a social activist and politician. She currently serves as a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha representing Delhi. She participated in the 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement led by social activist ...

(born 1984) - Women's activist, had several demands, including the passage of an ordinance requiring the death penalty for individuals who rape children under age 12, recruiting police under United Nations standards and demanding accountability of the police *

Manasi Pradhan Manasi Pradhan (born 4 October 1962) is an Indian women's rights activist and author. She is the founder of Honour for Women National Campaign, a nationwide Social movement, movement to end violence against women in India. In 2014, she was con ...

(born 1962) – founder of nationwide Honour for Women National Campaign against violence to women * Mamatha Raghuveer Achanta (born 1967) – women's and child rights activist, chair of Child Welfare Committee, Warangal District, active in A.P. State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, founder director of Tharuni, focusing on girl-child and women empowerment

Indonesia

* Electronita Duan – founder of ''Politeknik Pembangunan Halmahera'' * Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879–1904) – Javanese advocate for native Indonesian women, critic of polygamy and lack of women's education *

Valentina Sagala Rotua Valentina Sagala is an Indonesian women's rights activist and activist for law and human rights. In 2013 she won the N-Peace Award. Biography Sagala was born on August 9, 1977, in Jakarta. In 1998 she founded the ''Institut Perempuan'' (W ...

(born 1977) – women's rights activist * Nani Soewondo-Soerasno (born 1918) – lawyer, suffragist, and women's rights activist.

Iran

* Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh (born 1958) – women's rights activist, founder of ZananTV and NGO Training Center * Parvin Ardalan (born 1967) – women's rights activist * Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (1859–1921) – writer * Annie Basil (1911–1995) – Iranian-Indian activist for Armenian women *

Sediqeh Dowlatabadi Sediqeh Dowlatabadi ( ; 1882 in Isfahan – July 30, 1961 in Tehran) was an Iranian Feminism, feminist activist and journalism, journalist and one of the pioneering figures in the Persian women's movement. On one of the occasions when Dowlatabadi ...

(1882–1962) – journalist and women's rights activist *

Shirin Ebadi Shirin Ebadi (; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian Nobel laureate, lawyer, writer, teacher and a former judge and founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. In 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her pioneering effor ...

(born 1947) – activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner for efforts for rights of women and children *

Mohtaram Eskandari Mohtaram Eskandari (; 1895 – July 27, 1924), was an Iranian intellectual and a pioneer of the Iranian women's movement. She was the co-founder and first leader of Jam'iyat-e Nesvan-e Vatankhah, the first women's rights association in Persia ...

(1895–1924) – women's rights activist, founder of "Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah" ( Society of Patriotic Women) * Soheila Hejab (born 1990) * Sheema Kalbasi (born 1972) – writer, advocate for human rights and gender equality * Saba Kord Afshari * Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani (born 1970) – women's rights activist *

Shadi Sadr Shadi Sadr (; born 1974) is an Iranian lawyer, human rights advocate, essayist and journalist. She co-founded Justice for Iran (JFI) in 2010 and is the Executive Director of the NGO. She has published and lectured worldwide. She has received a n ...

(born 1975) – women's rights activist * Shahla Sherkat (born 1956) – journalist *

Táhirih Táhirih (Ṭāhira) (, "The Pure One," also called Qurrat al-ʿAyn ( "Solace/Consolation of the Eyes") are both titles of Fatimah Baraghani/Umm-i Salmih (1814 or 1817 – August 16–27, 1852), an influential poet, women's rights activist and th ...

(died 1852) – Bábí poet, theologian, exponent of women's rights in 19th century * Roya Toloui (born 1966) – women's rights activist * Rayehe Mozafarian (born 1986) – women's rights activist, author, documentary filmmaker

Ireland

* Hilary Boyle (1899–1988) – journalist, broadcaster, and activist * Margaret "Gretta" Cousins (1878–1954): see India. * Anna Haslam (1829–1922) – early women's movement figure, founded the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association * Francis Hutcheson (1694–1746) – philosopher born to activist family of Scots Presbyterians, opponent of slavery and advocate of women's rights * Sarah Winstedt (1886–1972) –

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and

Israel

* Ketzia Alon (born 1971) – academic, social activist, Mizrahi feminist, art curator and critic; one of the founders of the Ahoti – for Women in Israel movement *

Esther Eillam Esther Eillam (; July 12, 1939 – July 29, 2023) was a central figure in Israeli feminism from its inception. Eillam's activism and her writings on feminism and social justice have garnered her awards and recognition, including an Honorary degre ...

(1939–2023) – founder of the Feminist Movement organization; Mizrahi second wave and Mizrahi feminism activist *

Carmen Elmakiyes Carmen Elmakiyes Amos (; born February 17, 1979) is an Israeli social and political activist, medical clown, and filmmaker. She is a founder of the "Not Nice" social movement, of the Tor Hazahav (Golden Age) Mizrahi political movement. In April ...

(born 1979) – social and political activist, Mizrahi feminist; works on behalf of women in public housing * Marcia Freedman (1938–2021) – founder of Israel's feminist movement (1971); politician, social activist and writer *

Anat Hoffman Anat Hoffman (; born April 2, 1954) is an Israeli activist and the former executive director of the Israel Religious Action Center, also known as IRAC. She is the director and founding member of Nashot HaKotel, also known as Women of the Wall. ...

(born 1954) – executive director,

Israel Religious Action Center The Israel Religious Action Center (Hebrew: המרכז הרפורמי לדת ומדינה) also known as IRAC, was established in 1987 as the public and legal advocacy arm of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism. It is located in Jerusalem ...

; director and founding member,

Women of the Wall Women of the Wall (Hebrew: נשות הכותל, ''Neshot HaKotel'') is a multi-denominational Jewish feminist organization based in Israel whose goal is to secure the rights of women to pray at the Western Wall, also called the Kotel, in a fashi ...

* Shula Keshet (born 1959) – social and political activist and entrepreneur, Mizrahi feminist, artist, curator, writer, educator, and publisher; one of the founders and the executive director of the

Ahoti – for Women in Israel Ahoti – for Women in Israel (in Hebrew: , known as "Ahoti") is a feminist social movement, founded upon the principles of Mizrahi feminism. The movement works to promote issues of economic, social and cultural justice, and to empower and creat ...

Vicki Knafo Vicki Knafo (Hebrew language, Hebrew: ויקי קנפו; born 1960) is an Israeli Activism, social activist. She led the 2003 single-mothers struggle against austerity decrees limiting child allotments, a policy initiated by then-finance minister ...

(born 1960) – social activist; led the 2003 single-mothers struggle against austerity decrees * Reut Naggar (born 1983) – producer, cultural entrepreneur and social activist, mainly focusing on LGBT and women's rights *

Vicki Shiran Vicki Shiran (; February 28, 1947 − March 15, 2004) was an Israeli criminologist, sociologist, poet, film director, media personality and activist. She was a leader of a movement promoting Mizrahi Jewish consciousness in Israel. She was an adv ...

(1947–2004) – one of the founders of the Mizrahi feminism movement * Iris Stern Levi (born 1953) – activist for rehabilitation of trafficked women

Italy

* Alma Dolens (1869–1948) – pacifist, suffragist and journalist, founder of several women's organizations * Linda Malnati (1855–1921) – women's rights activist, trade unionist, suffragist, pacifist and writer *

Anna Maria Mozzoni Anna Maria Mozzoni (5 May 1837 – 14 June 1920) is commonly held as the founder of the woman's movement in Italy. One of the roles she is most known for is her pivotal involvement in gaining women's suffrage in Italy. Biography Mozzoni was born ...

(1837–1920) – pioneering women's rights activist and suffragist * Eugenia Rasponi Murat (1873–1958) – women's rights activist and open lesbian who fought for civil protections. *

Gabriella Rasponi Spalletti Gabriella Rasponi Spalletti (1853–1931) was an Italian feminist, educator and philanthropist. Keen to improve conditions for women, in 1897 she founded an embroidery school in Quarrata, Tuscany. From 1903, as president of the National Council of ...

(1853–1931) – feminist, educator and philanthropist, founder of the National Council of Italian Women in 1903 * Laura Terracina (1519–c.1577) – widely published poet, writer, protested violence against women and promoted women's writing

Japan

* Raicho Hiratsuka (1886–1971) *

Sayaka Osakabe is a Japanese women's rights activist and politician. She is known for popularizing the term: "matahara" (referring to the act of harassing pregnant employees and forcing them to quit their position at work) and raising awareness in Japan that a ...

(born 1978) *

Umeko Tsuda was a Japanese educator who founded Tsuda University. She was the daughter of Tsuda Sen, an agricultural science, agricultural scientist, and at the age of 7, she became Japan's first female international student, exchange student, traveling t ...

(1864–1929) * Yajima Kajiko (1833–1925)

Jordan

* Hadeel Abdel Aziz

Kazakhstan

* Bakhytzhan Toregozhina (born 1962)

Kenya

* Nice Nailantei Leng'ete (born 1991) – advocate for alternative rite of passage (ARP) for girls in Africa and campaigning to stop female genital mutilation (FGM). *

Wangari Maathai Wangari is a name of Kikuyu origin that may refer to: * Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Kenyan environmental and political activist * Catherine Wangari Wainaina (born 1985), Kenyan beauty pageant contestant * Margaret Wangari Muriuki (born 1986), K ...

(1940–2011) – social, environmental and political activist, the first African woman to win the

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish language, Swedish and ) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the Will and testament, will of Sweden, Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Nobe ...

Latvia

Berta Pīpiņa Berta Pīpiņa (née Berta Ziemele; 28 September 1883 – 1942) was a Latvian people, Latvian teacher, journalist, politician and women's rights activist. She was the first woman elected to serve in the Saeima although there was six female membe ...

(1883–1942)

Lebanon

* Laure Moghaizel (1929–1997) – lawyer and women's rights advocate

Libya

Alaa Murabit Alaa Murabit M.D. (; born October 1989) is a Libyan-Canadian physician, policy maker, and strategist focused on health, inclusive security, and sustainable development. She created the Voice of Libyan Women at age 21 and played a key role in ad ...

(born 1989) – physician, advocate of inclusive security, peace-building and post-conflict governance

Lithuania

Felicija Bortkevičienė Felicija Bortkevičienė ''née'' Povickaitė (1 September 1873 – 21 October 1945) was a Lithuanian politician and long-term publisher of ''Lietuvos ūkininkas'' and ''Lietuvos žinios''. She became active in public life after she moved to Vil ...

Sofija Kymantaitė-Čiurlionienė Sofija Čiurlionienė ''née'' Kymantaitė (13 March 1886 – 1 December 1958) was a Lithuanian writer, educator, and activist. After studies at girls' gymnasiums in Saint Petersburg and Riga, she studied philosophy, literature, art history at ...

* Ona Mašiotienė

Luxembourg

* Marguerite Mongenast-Servais (1885–1925) * Netty Probst (1903–1990) * Catherine Schleimer-Kill (1884–1973) *

Marguerite Thomas-Clement Marguerite Thomas-Clement (1886–1979) was a Luxembourgish women's rights activist and politician. She was the first woman to serve in Luxembourg's parliament. She was married to the socialist Xavier Thomas, and was herself a member of the socia ...

(1886–1979)

Mali

* Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo (1933–2015) – activist, nationalist and educator

Mauritania

* Zeinebou Mint Taleb Moussa

Netherlands

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Ayaan Hirsi Ali (; born 13 November 1969) is a Dutch and American writer, activist, conservative thinker and former politician. She is a critic of Islam and an advocate for the rights and self-determination of Muslim women, opposing forced mar ...

(born 1969) – see Stomalia. *

Wilhelmina Drucker Wilhelmina Drucker (née ''Wilhelmina Elizabeth Lensing''; 30 September 1847 – 5 December 1925) was a Dutch politician and writer. One of the first Dutch feminists, she was also known under her pseudonyms Gipsy, Gitano, and E. Prezcier. Life ...

(1847–1925) – politician and writer * Mariane van Hogendorp (1834–1909) * Mietje Hoitsema (1847–1934) * Cornélie Huygens (1848–1902) – writer, social democrat and feminist *

Aletta Jacobs Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (; 9 February 1854 – 10 August 1929) was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. As the first woman officially to attend a Dutch university, she became one of the first female physicians in the Netherlands. I ...

(1854–1929) – physician and

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...

activist * Charlotte Jacobs * Jeltje Kemper * Selma Meyer * Anette Poelman *

Cornelia Ramondt-Hirschmann Cornelia Ramondt-Hirschmann (29 July 1871 – 20 November 1957) was a Dutch teacher, feminist, pacifist and Theosophy (Blavatskian), theosophist active in the first half of the twentieth century. She was one of the women who participated in the pu ...

Namibia

* Monica Geingos * Gwen Lister * Rosa Namises

New Zealand

Kate Sheppard Katherine Wilson Sheppard ( Catherine Wilson Malcolm; 10 March 1848 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of the women's suffrage movement in New Zealand and the country's most famous suffragist. Born in Liverpool, England, she emig ...

(1848–1934) – suffragette, influential in winning voting rights for women in 1893 (first country and national election in which women have vote)

Nigeria

* Priscilla Achapka – women and gender environmental activist * Osai Ojigho (born 1976) – human rights and gender equality advocate *

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, MON (; born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Olufela Folorunso Thomas; 25 October 190013 April 1978), also known as Funmilayo Aníkúlápó-Kuti, was a Nigerian educator, political campaigner, suffragist, and women ...

(1900–1978) – women's rights activist * Dayo Benjamins-Laniyi (born 1965) - Women in politics, women and girl-child rights and environmental activist

Norway

* Marit Aarum (1903–1956), economist, politician, activist *

Irene Bauer Irene Bauer (20 March 1945 – 13 June 2016) was a Norwegian senior government official, Labour Party (Norway), Labour Party politician and feminist. She served as president of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights from 1988 to 1990. She als ...

(1945–2016), government official, activist * Anna Louise Beer (1924–2010), lawyer, judge, activist *

Margunn Bjørnholt Margunn Bjørnholt (born 9 October 1958 in Bø, Telemark) is a Norwegian sociologist and economics, economist. She is a Academic ranks in Norway#Research professor, research professor at the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Stud ...

(born 1958), sociologist, economist, gender researcher, activist * Randi Blehr (1851–1928), feminist, co-founder of the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights * Karin Maria Bruzelius (born 1941), Swedish-born Norwegian judge, government official, rights activist * Nicoline Hambro (1861–1926), politician, women's rights proponent * Siri Hangeland (born 1952), politician, activist * Aasta Hansteen (1824–1908), painter, writer, feminist * Sigrun Hoel (born 1951), government official, activist *

Anniken Huitfeldt Anniken Scharning Huitfeldt (born 29 November 1969) is a Norwegian historian and politician for the Labour Party (Norway), Labour Party. She has served as the Norwegian Ambassador to the United States since 2024. She previously held several mini ...

(born 1969), historian, politician, reported on women's rights * Grethe Irvoll(born 1939), political supporter of women's rights * Martha Larsen Jahn (1875–1954), peace and women's activist * Dakky Kiær (1892–1980), politician, civic leader, activist * Betzy Kjelsberg (1866–1950), right's activist, suffragist, politician *

Eva Kolstad Eva Severine Lundegaard Kolstad (born Eva Severine Lundegaard Hartvig; 6 May 1918 – 26 March 1999) was a Norwegian politician and government minister for the Liberal Party. A major figure in the history of liberal feminism and the development o ...

(1918–1999), politician, minister, proponent of gender equality * Gina Krog (1947–1916), proponent of women's right to education, politician, editor * Berit Kvæven (born 1942), politician, activist * Aadel Lampe (1857–1944), women's rights leader, suffragist, teacher * Antonie Løchen (1850–1933), local politician and women's rights activist from Trondheim * Mimi Sverdrup Lunden (1894–1955), educator, writer, women's rights proponent * Fredrikke Mørck (1861–1934), editor, teacher, activist * Ragna Nielsen (1845–1924), headmistress, politician, activist *

Marit Nybakk Marit Nybakk (born 14 February 1947, in Nord-Odal) is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party, a former First Vice-president of the Norwegian Parliament, the Storting, and a former President of the Nordic Council. From 2016 to 2018 she was P ...

(born 1947), politician, activist *

Amalie Øvergaard Amalie Constance Øvergaard, née Angell (3 March 1874 – 19 November 1960) was a Norway, Norwegian women's leader. She was born in Sørreisa Municipality as a daughter of businessman Ingebrigt Angell and Severine Johansen. From 1899 she was marr ...

(1874–1960), women's leader, active in housewives associations *

Kjellaug Pettersen Kjellaug Pettersen (born 5 January 1934, Andøya - died 11 November 2012) was a Norwegian senior government official, politician and feminist. She worked as a teacher and headmistress of Bygdøy School from 1979 to 1988. In 1981 she was appointe ...

(1934–2012), government official, politician, gender equality proponent *

(1843–1938), politician, founder of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association * Ingerid Gjøstein Resi (1901–1955), philologist, women's rights leader, politician *

Torild Skard Torild Skard (born 29 November 1936) is a Norwegian psychologist, politician for the Socialist Left Party, a former deputy permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a former chairman of UNICEF. She served as a Member of Parlia ...

(born 1936), psychologist, politician, women's rights leader *

Kari Skjønsberg Kari Skjønsberg (17 January 1926 – 6 January 2003) was a Norwegian academic, writer and feminist. Biography She was born in Oslo, Norway. She worked on the Saturday Children's Hour (''Lørdagsbarnetimen'') on NRK radio during the 1940s. I ...

(1926–2003), academic, writer, activist * Anna Stang (1834–1901), politician, women's rights leader *

Sigrid Stray Sigrid Stray (née Kluge; 29 May 1893 – 3 July 1978) was a Norwegian barrister and proponent for women's rights. Personal life She was born in Sandnes as a daughter of merchant Reier Kluge (1859–1921) and Anna Gausel (1863–1939). In Marc ...

(1893–1978), lawyer, women's rights proponent * Signe Swensson (1888–1974), physician, politician, women's leader * Thina Thorleifsen (1855–1959), women's movement activist * Clara Tschudi (1856–1945), writer, biographer of women's rights activists * Vilhelmine Ullmann (1816–1915), pedagogue, writer, women's rights proponent *

Grethe Værnø Grethe Kathrine Værnø, née Jacobsen, (born 1938) is a Norwegian Conservative politician and writer who has played an important part in support of women's rights, both nationally and internationally. She headed the Norwegian National Women's Coun ...

(born 1938), politician, writer, national and international women's rights supporter * Margrethe Vullum (1846–1918), Danish-born Norwegian journalist, writer, women's rights proponent *

Fredrikke Waaler Fredrikke Amalie Holtemann Rynning Waaler (7 May 1865 – 2 February 1952) was a Norwegian composer, violinist, and proponent for women's rights. Waaler was born in Eidsvoll to Paul Emil Rynning and Anne Margrethe Holtermann. She married physici ...

(1865–1952), musician, activist * Gunhild Ziener (1868–1937), pioneer in the women's movement, editor

Panama

* Lamar Bailey Karamañites (dates unknown) – filmmaker, activist * Esther Neira de Calvo (1890–1978) – educator and politician * Elida Campodónico (1894 – 1960) – teacher, attorney, suffragist * Tomasa Ester Casís (1878 – 1962) – teacher and suffragist * Georgina Jiménez de López (1904 – 1994) – sociologist, writer, feminist * Marta Matamoros (1909 – 2005) – trade unionist, dressmaker, political activist for gender equality *

Gumercinda Páez Gumercinda Páez (1904-1991) was a teacher, women's rights activist and suffragette, and Constituent Assemblywoman of Panama. She was the first woman deputy to serve the National Assembly for the Panamá Province and was a vice president of the ...

(1904 –1991) – teacher, suffragist, politician *

Sara Sotillo Sara Sotillo Guillén (April 19, 1900 – December 16, 1961) was a Panamanians, Panamanian educator, Feminism, feminist, and founder of the National Feminist Party of Panama. Early life and education Sotillo was born in 1900 in the city o ...

(1900 – 1961) – educator, trade unionist, founder of National Feminist Party of Panama

Pakistan

* Gulalai Ismail (born 1986) –

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghans until 1964 after the ...

women's rights activist campaigning in the

Pashtun Tahafuz Movement The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM; , ''Paṣtūn Zhghōrənē Ghōrźang''; , ''Pashtūn Tahaffuz Tehreek'' ) is a social movement for Pashtuns, Pashtun human rights based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan. It was found ...

, and founder of Aware Girls * Fatima Lodhi (born 1989) –

Pakistani Pakistanis (, ) are the citizens and nationals of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Pakistan is the fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the second-largest Muslim population as of 2023. As much as ...

women's rights activist who addressed

colorism Discrimination based on skin tone, also known as colorism or shadeism, is a form of prejudice and discrimination in which individuals of the same race receive benefits or disadvantages based on the color of their skin. More specifcally, coloris ...

* Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola (1917–2015) – member of

All Pakistan Women's Association The All Pakistan Women's Association, or APWA, () as it is commonly known, is a voluntary, non-profit and non-political Pakistani organisation whose fundamental aim is the promotion of moral, social and economic welfare of the women of Pakistan ...

Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai (; , pronunciation: ; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani female education activist, film and television producer, and the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17. She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history, ...

(born 1997) –

women's rights activist shot in assassination attempt by

Taliban , leader1_title = Supreme Leader of Afghanistan, Supreme leaders , leader1_name = {{indented plainlist, * Mullah Omar{{Natural Causes{{nbsp(1994–2013) * Akhtar Mansour{{Assassinated (2015–2016) * Hibatullah Akhundzada (2016–present) ...

for advocating for girls' education, now in UK

Peru

María Jesús Alvarado Rivera María Jesús Alvarado Rivera (27 May 18786 May 1971) was a Peruvian rebel feminist, educator, journalist, writer and social activist. She was noted by the National Council of Women of Peru in 1969 as the "first modern champion of women's rights ...

Philippines

* Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel – women's right activities * Liza Maza *

Teresita Quintos Deles Teresita "Ging" Quintos Deles is a Filipina feminist, peace advocate, and government official best known for having been the Philippine government's Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) from 2003–2005 and 2010–2016. Deles began h ...

Poland

Maria Konopnicka Maria Konopnicka (; ; 23 May 1842 – 8 October 1910) was a Polish people, Polish poet, novelist, children's writer, translator, journalist, critic and activist for women's rights and for Polish independence. She used pseudonyms, including ''Jan ...

* Ernestine Rose (1810– 1892) – Polish-born woman's rights activist, atheist,

abolitionist Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the political movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved individuals around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery was Kingdom of France, France in 1315, but it was later used ...

and

Portugal

* Carolina Beatriz Ângelo * Sara Beirão *

Cesina Bermudes Cesina Borges Adães Bermudes (1908–2001) was a Portuguese obstetrician who introduced the concept of “painless childbirth” to Portugal. She was also a prominent feminist and an opponent of the '' Estado Novo'' authoritarian regime, for wh ...

Adelaide Cabete file:Adelaide Cabete.jpg, Adelaide Cabete Adelaide Cabete (25 January 1867, Elvas – 14 September 1935), was one of the main Portuguese feminists of the 20th century. A staunch Republican, she was an obstetrician, gynecologist, teacher, Freemas ...

* Ana de Castro Osório * Elina Guimarães * Lutegarda Guimarães de Caires (1873–1935) – poet and women's rights activist * Maria Lamas

Puerto Rico

Luisa Capetillo Luisa Capetillo (October 28, 1879 – April 10, 1922) was one of Puerto Rico's most famous labor leaders. She was an anarchist writer, activist, labor organizer who fought for workers' rights, women's rights, free love, and human emancipation. ...

(1879–1922) – labor union suffragette jailed for wearing pants in public

Romania

* Maria Baiulescu (1860–1941) – Austro-Hungarian born Romanian writer, suffragist and women's rights activist *

Calypso Botez Calypso Botez (1880–1933), was a Romanian writer, Suffragette, suffragist and women's rights activist. Life Botez was born in 1880 in Bacău. She graduated from the University of Iasi. Botez then lived in Bucharest where she taught at a second ...

(1880–1933) – writer, suffragist and women's rights activist *

Alexandrina Cantacuzino Alexandrina "Didina" Cantacuzino ( Pallady; also known as Alexandrina Grigore Cantacuzino and (Francization, Francized) Alexandrine Cantacuzène; 20 September 1876 – 1944) was a Romanians, Romanian political activist, philanthropist and diploma ...

(1876–1944) – political activist, feminist, philanthropist and diplomat * Maria Cuțarida-Crătunescu (1857–1919) – first female doctor in Romania, feminist supporter, founded the Maternal Society in 1897, and in 1899 organised the first crèche in Romania * Cecilia Cuțescu-Storck (1879–1969) – painter and feminist *

Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu Eugenia de Reuss Ianculescu (11 March 1866 – 29 December 1938) was a Romanian teacher, writer, and women's rights activist. She was one of the founders of the Women's League, the first feminist organization in Romania, and later was the founder ...

(1866–1938) – teacher, writer, women's rights activist, suffragist * Clara Maniu (1842–1929) – feminist, suffragist * Elena Meissner (1867–1940) – feminist, suffragist, headed ''Asociația de Emancipare Civilă și Politică a Femeii Române'' * Sofia Nădejde (1856–1946) – writer, women's rights activist and socialist * Ella Negruzzi (1876–1948) – lawyer and women's rights activist * Elena Pop-Hossu-Longin (1862–1940) – Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, journalist, suffragist and women's rights activist * Ilona Stetina (1855–1932) – pioneer educator and women's rights activist *

Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan Izabela Sadoveanu-Evan (, last name also Sadoveanu-Andrei, first name also Isabella or Izabella; born Izabela Morțun, pen names I.Z.S.D. and Iz. Sd.;

(1870–1941) – literary critic, educationist, journalist, poet and feminist militant

Russia

* Praskovia Arian (1864–1949) – writer and journalist * Maria Bezobrazova (1857–1914) – philosopher and writer *

Maria Chekhova Maria Pavlovna Chekhova () was a Russian teacher, artist, founder of the Chekhov Memorial House museum in Yalta, and a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Anton Chekhov was her brother. Biography Maria Pavlovna Chekhova was b ...

(1866–1934) – suffragette and socialist activist *

Anna Filosofova Anna Pavlovna Filosofova (; ; 5April 183717March 1912) was a Russian feminist and activist of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Born into a wealthy, noble family, she married and they had six children. Initially concerned with the plight of ...

(1837–1912) – early women's rights activist, member of "triumvirate" * Zinaida Ivanova (1865–1913) – translator and writer * Evgenia Konradi (1838–1898) – early women's rights activist and writer * Tatiana Mamonova (born 1943) – author, non-profit founder, and artist * Poliksena Shishkina-Iavein (1875–1947) – physician and suffragette * Nadezhda Stasova (1822–1895) – early women's rights activist, member of "triumvirate" * Maria Trubnikova (1835–1897) – early women's rights activist, member of "triumvirate"

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

* Nelcia Robinson-Hazell – poet, community organizer and activist

Saudi Arabia

Loujain al-Hathloul Loujain al-Hathloul ( ''Lujjayn al-Hadhlūl''; born 31 July 1989) is a Saudi women's rights activist, social media figure, and political prisoner. She has been arrested on several occasions for defying the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. ...

(born 1989) – women's rights leader, social media influencer, political prisoner

Serbia

Ksenija Atanasijević Ksenija Atanasijević (Xenia Atanassievich) (1894–1981) was the first recognised major female Serbian philosopher, and the first female professors of Belgrade University, where she graduated. She wrote about Giordano Bruno, ancient Greek philo ...

(1894–1981) – philosopher, suffragette, first PhD Doctor in Serbian universities *

Helen of Anjou, Queen of Serbia Saint Helen of Serbia (; – 8 February 1314) was the queen consort of the Serbian Kingdom, as the spouse of King Stefan Uroš I, who ruled from 1243 to 1276. Their sons were later Serbian kings Stefan Dragutin (1276–1282) and Stefan Milutin ...

(1236–1314) – queen, feminist, establisher of women schools *

Jefimija Jefimija ( sr-Cyrl, Јефимија, ; 1349–1405), secular name Jelena Mrnjavčević ( sr-Cyrl, Јелена Мрњавчевић, link=no, or ), was a Serbian noblewoman, wife of Jovan Uglješa Mrnjavčević, considered to be the first femal ...

(1349–1405) – politician, poet, diplomat, feminist * Draga Ljočić (1855–1926) – physician, socialist, and feminist * Milica of Serbia (1335–1405) – empress, feminist, poet * Katarina Milovuk (1844–1913) – educator and women's rights activist * Milunka Savić (1888–1973) – first female combatant, soldier, feminist * Stasa Zajovic (born 1953) – co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black

Slovenia

* Alojzija Štebi (1883–1956) – suffragist, who saw socialism as a means of equalizing society for both men and women.

Somalia

(born 1969) – Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician * Halima Ali Adan – Somali gender rights activist and an expert on female genital mutilation (FGM).

South Africa

* Shamima Shaikh (1960–1998) – member of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa, exponent of Islamic gender equality

South Korea

* Lee In-hwi (born 1958) – author whose anti-capitalist novels have promoted women's labor rights * Choi Young-ae (born 1951) – winner of 2014 Seoul Gender Equality Award

Spain

Concepción Arenal Concepción Arenal Ponte ( Ferrol, 31 January 1820 – Vigo, 4 February 1893) was a graduate in law, thinker, journalist, poet and Galician dramatic author within the literary Realism and pioneer in Spanish feminism. Born in Ferrol, Galicia, ...

(1820–1893) – feminist and activist *

Clara Campoamor Clara Campoamor Rodríguez (12 February 1888 – 30 April 1972) was a Spanish politician, lawyer and writer, considered by some the mother of the Spanish feminist movement. She was one of the main promoters for women's suffrage in Spa ...

(1888–1972) – politician and feminist * Montserrat Cervera Rodon (born 1949) – Catalan anti-militarist, feminist, and women's health activist

Sri Lanka

* Rupika De Silva – women's rights activist * Saila Ithayaraj (born 1977) –

activist, especially for widows * Shreen Abdul Saroor (born 1969) – women's rights activist

Sweden

Ellen Key Ellen Karolina Sofia Key (; 11 December 1849 – 25 April 1926) was a Swedes, Swedish difference feminist writer on many subjects in the fields of family life, ethics and education and was an important figure in the Modern Breakthrough movement. S ...

(1849–1926) – writer, leading member of the women's rights movement * Gertrud Adelborg (1853–1942) – teacher, leading member of the women's rights movement *

Sophie Adlersparre Carin Sophie Adlersparre (née Leijonhufvud; 6 July 1823 – 27 June 1895), known by her pen-name Esselde, was a Swedish feminist, writer and publisher who was one of the pioneers of the 19th-century women's rights movement in Sweden. She wa ...

(1823–1895) – publisher, women's rights activist, pioneer *

Alma Åkermark Alma Mathilda Åkermark (11 June 1853, Forshälla parish – 4 June 1933, Oscar Fredriks parish) was a Swedish editor, feminist, writer, journalist and women's rights activist. She was a co-founder of the radical feminist women's paper '' Framåt ...

(1853–1933) – editor, journalist, activist *

Ellen Anckarsvärd Anna Lovisa Eleonora "Ellen" Anckarsvärd (; 10 December 1833 – 8 December 1898) was a Swedish women's rights activist. She was the co-founder and secretary of the Married Woman's Property Rights Association (1873), co-founder and vice chairpe ...

(1833–1898) – women's rights activist, co-founded Föreningen för gift kvinnas äganderätt (

Married Woman's Property Rights Association The Married Woman Property Association () was a Swedish women's rights organisation active in Sweden between 1873 and 1896. Its purpose was to work for the introduction of reformed laws in favor of women's equality with men. The association was fo ...

) * Carolina Benedicks-Bruce (1856–1935) – sculptor, rights activist *

Ellen Bergman Ellen Bergman (5 January 1842 – 5 December 1921) was a Swedish musician, vocal educator and women's rights activist. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. Biography Eleonora (Ellen) Magdalena Bergman was born at Strängnäs, S ...

(1842–1921) – musician, rights activist *

Fredrika Bremer Fredrika Bremer (17 August 1801 – 31 December 1865) was a Finland, Finnish-born Sweden and Norway, Swedish Swedish literature, writer and feminism in Sweden, reformer. Her ''Sketches of Everyday Life'' were wildly popular in Britain and ...

(1801–1865) – writer, feminist activist and pioneer * Frigga Carlberg (1851–1925) – writer, feminist and women's suffragist * Maria Cederschiöld (1856–1935) – journalist and women's rights activist * Josefina Deland (1814–1890) – feminist, writer, teacher, founded Svenska lärarinnors pensionsförening (Society for Retired Female Teachers) * Lizinka Dyrssen (1866–1952) – women's rights activist *

Agda Montelius Agda Georgina Dorothea Alexandra Montelius (; 23 April 1850 – 27 October 1920) was a Swedish philanthropist and feminist. She was a leading figure of the Swedish philanthropy, active for the struggle of women's suffrage, and chairwoman of the ...

(1850–1920) – philanthropist feminist, chairman of the

Fredrika Bremer Association The Fredrika Bremer Association (, abbreviated FBF) is the oldest women's rights organisation in Sweden. The association stands for an inclusive, intersectional and progressive liberal feminism, and advocates for women's rights and LGBT rights. I ...

* Ebba von Eckermann (1866–1960) – women's rights activist * Ruth Gustafson (1881–1960) – politician, trade unionist, women's rights activist, editor *

Anna Hierta-Retzius Anna Wilhelmina Hierta-Retzius, née ''Hierta'' (24 August 1841 – 21 December 1924), was a Swedish women's rights activist and philanthropist. She was the co-founder and secretary of the '' Married Woman's Property Rights Association'' (1873), f ...

(1841–1924) – women's rights activist and philanthropist * Lilly Engström (1843–1921) – women's rights activist, government official * Soheila Fors (born 1967) – Iranian-Swedish women's rights activist * Maja Forsslund (1878-1967) – women's rights activist and folklorist * Ruth Gustafson (1881–1960) – politician, union worker and women's rights activist *

Ellen Hagen Ellen Helga Louise Hagen (''née'' Wadström; 1873–1967) was a Swedish suffragette, women's rights activist and politician. She was a member of the National Association for Women's Suffrage, the chairperson of Liberala kvinnor (Liberal Women ...

(1873–1967) – suffragette, rights activist, politician * Lina Hjort (1881–1959) – schoolteacher, house builder and suffragist *

Amanda Kerfstedt Hilda Augusta ''Amanda'' Kerfstedt, née ''Hallström'' (5 June 1835, in Eskilstuna – 10 April 1920, in Stockholm), was a Swedish novelist, playwright and translator. She was a popular and noted writer in late 19th and early 20th century Sweden, ...

(1835–1920) – writer, active in the women's rights movement * Ellen Kleman (1867–1943) – writer, journal editor, women's rights activist *

Lotten von Kræmer Charlotte Louise "Lotten" von Kræmer (6 August 1828 – 23 December 1912) was a Swedish baroness, writer, poet, philanthropist and women's rights activist. She was the founder of the literary society Samfundet De Nio and, alongside Martina Be ...

(1828–1912) – writer, poet, philanthropist, founder of literary society Samfundet De Nio * Elisabeth Krey-Lange (1878–1965) – women's rights activist and journalist * Lisbeth Larsson (1949–2021) – literary historian focusing on gender studies *

Rosa Malmström Rosa Astrid Tyra Malmström (1906–1995) was a Swedish feminist, schoolteacher and librarian. She is remembered in particular for her focus on Women's writing (literary category), women's literature while working at University of Gothenburg Libra ...

(1906–1995), librarian and feminist * Sara Mohammad (born 1967) – Iraqi Kurdish-born Swedish human rights activist campaigning against honour killing *

(1850–1920) – philanthropist, suffrage activist * Rosalie Olivecrona (1823–1898) – pioneer of the women's rights movement * Ellen Palmstierna (1869–1941) – women's rights and peace activist * Gulli Petrini (1867–1941) – suffragette, women's rights activist, politician * Anna Pettersson (1886–1929) – lawyer and pioneer in legal advice to women * Eva Pineus (1905–1985) – librarian, politician and activist * Emilie Rathou (1862–1948) – journalist, editor, activist *

Hilda Sachs Hilda Gustafva Sachs (13 March 1857, Norrköping – 26 February 1935), was a Swedish journalist, translator, writer and feminist. She was the daughter of merchant Johan Gustaf Engström and Gustafva Augusta Gustafsson in Norrköping. She worke ...

(1857–1935) – journalist, writer and feminist *

Sophie Sager Sophie (or Sofie) Sager, (Växjö, Sweden, 1825 – New York City, United States, 1902), was a Swedish writer and feminist. She was one of the first feminist activists and speakers for the modern women's movement in Sweden. She is also known for ...

, (1825–1902) – women's rights activist and writer *

Anna Sandström ''Anna'' Maria Carolina Sandström (3 September 1854 – 26 May 1931) was a Swedish feminist, reform pedagogue and a pioneer within the educational system of her country. She is referred to as the leading reform pedagogue within female educati ...

(1854–1931) – educational reformer *

Ida Schmidt Ida Schmidt (1857-1932) was a Swedish women's rights activist, and she founded one of the first gardening schools for women in the country. In 1910, the first year that women were allowed to run for municipal office, she was one of Sweden's first ...

(1857–1932) – women's rights activist, educator, politician * Alexandra Skoglund (1862–1938) – suffragette, activist, politician *

Frida Stéenhoff Helga Frideborg "Frida" Maria Stéenhoff, née ''Wadström'' (11 December 1865, in Stockholm – 22 June 1945, in Stockholm), was a Swedish writer and women's rights activist. She was a leading participant of the public debate of gender equality a ...

(1865–1945) – writer, women's rights activist *

Elisabeth Tamm Elisabeth Tamm (30 June 1880, at the manor Fogelstad in Julita, Sweden, Julita, Södermanlands län – 23 September 1958) was a Swedish Liberalism, liberal politician and women's rights activist. She was known in the parliament as ('Tamm of ...

(1880–1958) – politician, women's rights activist *

Kajsa Wahlberg Kajsa Wahlberg is Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities. She holds the title of Detective Inspector, and serves on the Swedish Police Authority's human trafficking unit, of which she is the head. Wahlberg estimate ...

– Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities *

Anna Whitlock Anna Whitlock (13June 185216June 1930) was a Swedish reform pedagogue, journalist, suffragette and feminist. She was co-founder and twice chairperson of the National Association for Women's Suffrage. She was also the co-founder of the women's ...

(1852–1930) – school pioneer, journalist and feminist

Switzerland

* Marianne Ehrmann (1755–1795) – among first women novelists and publicists in German-speaking countries *

Margarethe Faas-Hardegger Margarethe Hardegger (20 February 1882 – 23 September 1963) was a Swiss socialist feminist and trade union activist. A leading figure in the women's labour movement in Switzerland, she became the first women's secretary of the Swiss Trade U ...

(1882–1963) – Swiss women's rights activist and trade unionist *

Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin (1826–1899), was a pioneer in the women's rights movement and women's peace movement in Switzerland. She has been called the first feminist in Switzerland. In 1868, she founded ''Association internationale des femmes'' (I ...

(1826–1899) – founder of the Swiss women's movement

Tunisia

* Néziha Zarrouk (born 1946) – minister who contributed to improvements in women's rights and women's health

Turkey

* Nezihe Muhiddin – feminist, founded a women's party *

Sebahat Tuncel Sebahat Tuncel (born 5 July 1975) is a Turkish politician of Kurdish origin, women's rights advocate, former nurse and member of the Parliament in Turkey. She was elected a member of parliament while being in prison. Early life and education ...

– women's rights activist, former nurse and member of Parliament in Turkey

Uganda

* Jane Frances Kuka – Ugandan legislator, Member of Parliament and anti-FGM activist

United Kingdom

* Lesley Abdela (born 1945) – women's rights campaigner, gender consultant, journalist who has worked for women's representation in over 40 countries including post-conflict countries: Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Aceh. In 1980 she founded the all-Party 300 Group to campaign to get more women into local, national, and European politics in the UK. Author of hundreds of features in ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...

'', ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'', ''

The Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...

'', and major women's magazines and the paperback ''Women with X Appeal: Women Politicians in Britain Today'' (London: Macdonald Optima 1989). *

Jane Austen Jane Austen ( ; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for #List of works, her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century ...

(1775–1817) – writer and feminist, focusing on women's rights and marriage complications through 6 novels * Clementina Black (1853–1922) – writer prominent in the

Women's Trade Union League The Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) (1903–1950) was a United States, U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and to eliminate sweatshop conditions. The WTUL pla ...

and the forerunner of the

Women's Industrial Council The Women's Industrial Council (WIC) was a British organisation active from 1894 to about 1917, promoting the interests of women at work. Federation The organisation originated as the Women's Trade Union Association, founded by Clementina Black i ...

* Helen Blackburn (1842–1903) – suffragist and campaigner for women's employment rights * Barbara Bodichon (1827–1891) – active in the Langham Place Circle, promoter of first journal to press for women's rights, the ''

English Woman's Journal The ''English Woman's Journal'' was a periodical dealing primarily with female employment and equality issues. It was established in 1858 by Barbara Bodichon, Matilda Mary Hays and Bessie Rayner Parkes. Published monthly between March 1858 ...

'' (1858–64) *

Jessie Boucherett (Emilia) Jessie Boucherett (November 1825 – 18 October 1905) was an English campaigner for women's rights. Life She was born in November 1825 at North Willingham, near Market Rasen, Lincolnshire. She was the grandchild of Lt. Colonel Ayscoghe ...

(1825–1905) – co-founder of

Society for Promoting the Employment of Women The Society for Promoting the Employment of Women (SPEW) was one of the earliest British women's organisations. The society was established in 1859 by Jessie Boucherett, Barbara Bodichon, Adelaide Anne Proctor and Lydia Becker to promote the ...

in 1859, editor of '' Englishwoman's Review'' (1866–70), co-founder of Women's Employment Defence League in 1891 * Myra Sadd Brown (1872–1938) – suffragette, activist for women's rights and internationalist * Constance Bryer (1870–1952) – suffragette who went on

hunger strike A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fasting, fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change. Hunger strikers that do not take fluids are ...

and was forcibly-fed * Ida Craft (fl. 1910s) – suffragist, among main organizers of Suffrage Hikes * Laura Ormiston Chant (1848–1923) – social reformer, women's rights activist, writer, and member of the

(1888) * Adeline Chapman (1847–1931) – English suffragette and president of the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage (a middle ground between the militant suffragists and the NUWSS) *

Emily Davison Emily Wilding Davison (11 October 1872 – 8 June 1913) was an English suffragette who fought for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women's Social and Polit ...

(1872–1913) – English suffragette * June Eric-Udorie (born 1998) – anti-FGM campaigner * Kate Williams Evans (1866–1961) – suffragette and activist for women's rights *

Millicent Fawcett Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett (; 11 June 1847 – 5 August 1929) was an English political activist and writer. She campaigned for Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, women's suffrage by Law reform, legal change and in 1897–1919 led Brita ...

(1847–1929) – suffragist and feminist, president of

National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies The National Union of Women Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), also known as the ''suffragists'' (not to be confused with the suffragettes) was an organisation founded in 1897 of women's suffrage societies around the United Kingdom. In March 1919 it w ...

* Mary Fildes (1789–1876) – political activist and founder of Manchester Female Reform Society * Edith Margaret Garrud (1872–1971) – trained "Bodyguard" unit of

Women's Social and Political Union The Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) was a women-only political movement and leading militant organisation campaigning for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom founded in 1903. Known from 1906 as the suffragettes, its membership and p ...

jujutsu Jujutsu ( , or ), also known as jiu-jitsu and ju-jitsu (both ), is a Japanese martial art and a system of close combat that can be used in a defensive or offensive manner to kill or subdue one or more weaponless or armed and armored opponent ...

techniques * Katharine Gatty (1870–1952) – journalist, lecturer, militant suffragette *

Cicely Hamilton Cicely Mary Hamilton (née Hammill; 15 June 1872 – 6 December 1952), was an English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist and feminist, part of the struggle for women's suffrage in the United Kingdom. She is now best known for the feminist ...

(1872–1952) – English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist, feminist * Diana Reader Harris (1912–1996) – educator and advocate of female ordination in the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...

* Matilda Hays (1820–1897) – co-founder of first journal to press for women's rights, the ''English Woman's Journal'' (1858–64) *

Margaret Hills Margaret Hills (née Robertson 1882 – 1967) was a British teacher, suffragist organiser, feminist and socialist. She was the first female councillor on Stroud Urban District Council and later served as a Councillor on Gloucestershire County Co ...

(1892–1967) – organiser of the Election Fighting Fund * Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884) – feminist prominent in the campaign that led to the

Married Women's Property Act 1870 The Married Women's Property Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 93) was an Act of Parliament (United Kingdom), act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of the money they earned and to inherit property ...

* Leyla Hussein – Somali-born British psychotherapist and social activist, co-founder of the Daughters of Eve * Anne Knight (1786–1862) – feminist and social reformer * Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815–1906) – women's rights campaigner * Hannah Mitchell (1872–1956) – suffragette and socialist, author of The Hard Way Up *

John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, politician and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism and social liberalism, he contributed widely to s ...

(1806–1873) – philosopher, political economist, author of ''

The Subjection of Women ''The Subjection of Women'' is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. J.S. Mill submitted the finished manus ...

'' *

Elizabeth Montagu Elizabeth Montagu (née Robinson; 2 October 1718 – 25 August 1800) was a British social reformer, patron of the arts, salonnière, literary critic and writer, who helped to organize and lead the Blue Stockings Society. Her parents were bot ...

(1718–1800) – social reformer and

Bluestocking ''Bluestocking'' (also spaced blue-stocking or blue stockings) is a Pejorative, derogatory term for an educated, intellectual woman, originally a member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society from England led by the hostess and critic El ...

* Olive Morris (1952–1979) – feminist,

black nationalist Black nationalism is a nationalist movement which seeks representation for Black people as a distinct national identity, especially in racialized, colonial and postcolonial societies. Its earliest proponents saw it as a way to advocate for ...

squatter Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building (usually residential) that the squatter does not Land ownership and tenure, own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estima ...

s' rights activist *

Caroline Norton Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (''née'' Sheridan; 22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author.Perkin, pp. 26–28. She left her husband, who was accused by many of coercive behaviour, ...

(1808–1877) – social campaigner influencing the

Custody of Infants Act 1839 The Custody of Infants Act 1839 ( 2 & 3 Vict. c. 54) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, and m ...

Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 The Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 ( 20 & 21 Vict. c. 85) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The act reformed the law on divorce, moving litigation from the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical courts to the civil courts, establishi ...

, and

Christabel Pankhurst Dame Christabel Harriette Pankhurst (; 22 September 1880 – 13 February 1958) was a British suffragette born in Manchester, England. A co-founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she directed Suffragette bombing and arson ca ...

(1880–1958) – suffragette, co-founder and leader of

Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst (; Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the women's suffrage, right to vote in United Kingdom of Great Brita ...

(1858–1928) – founder leader of

suffragette A suffragette was a member of an activist women's organisation in the early 20th century who, under the banner "Votes for Women", fought for the right to vote in public elections in the United Kingdom. The term refers in particular to members ...

movement * Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925) – editor of first journal to press for women's rights, the ''

'' (1858–64) *

Pleasance Pendred Pleasance Pendred (15 July 1864 – 29 September 1948) was a British campaigner for women's rights, an activist and suffragette who during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison went on hunger strike as a consequence of which she was force-fed. Sh ...

(1865–1948) – a secretary for the WSPU, writer and speaker for women's suffrage *

Dora Russell Dora Winifred Russell, Countess Russell ( Black; 3 April 1894 – 31 May 1986) was a British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a campaigner for contraception and pea ...

(1894–1986) – campaigner, advocate of marriage reform, birth control, and female emancipation * Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh (8 August 1876 – 22 August 1948) – suffragette, involved in the Women's Tax Resistance League * Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1840–1929) – author and campaigner for women's rights, mother of

Marie Stopes Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a British author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for Eugenic feminism, eugenics and women's rights. She made significant contributions to plant palaeontology and co ...

(1880–1958) – advocate of birth control and equality in marriage *

Alice Vickery Alice Vickery (also known as A. Vickery Drysdale and A. Drysdale Vickery, ''c.'' 1844 – 12 January 1929) was an English physician, campaigner for women's rights, and the first British woman to qualify as a chemist and pharmacist. She and her ...

(1844–1929) – physician, supporter of birth control as means of women's emancipation *

Emma Watson Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson (born 15 April 1990) is an English actress. Known for her roles in both Blockbuster (entertainment), blockbusters and independent films, she has received List of awards and nominations received by Emma Watson, ...

(born 1990) – actress, feminist, women's rights activist *

Catherine Winkworth Catherine Winkworth (13 September 1827 – 1 July 1878) was an English hymnwriter and educator. She translated the German chorale tradition of church hymns for English speakers, for which she is recognized in the calendar of the Evangelical Luth ...

(1827–1878) – translator and women's rights activist, secretary of the Clifton Association for Higher Education for Women *

Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Wollstonecraft ( , ; 27 April 175910 September 1797) was an English writer and philosopher best known for her advocacy of women's rights. Until the late 20th century, Wollstonecraft's life, which encompassed several unconventional ...

(1759–1797) – writer and feminist *

(born 1997) – see Pakistan * Alice Zimmern (1855–1939) – writer and suffragist

United States

Jane Addams Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860May 21, 1935) was an American Settlement movement, settlement activist, Social reform, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of s ...

(1860–1935) – major social activist, president

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make kno ...

* Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – prominent opponent of slavery, played a pivotal role in the 19th-century women's rights movement to introduce women's

suffrage Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...

into the

United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...

* Yolanda Bako (born 1946) – New York activist, focused on addressing domestic violence * Sharon Barker (1949–2023) – Feminist activist, focused on improving educational access, creating economic opportunities, and fighting for reproductive freedom. Founded the Women's Resource Center at the University of Maine, one of the founders and first president of the Mabel Sine Wadsworth Women's Health Center. * Helen Valeska Bary (1888–1973) – suffragist, researcher, social reformer * Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – feminist and journalist, editor of the ''

Woman's Journal ''Woman's Journal'' was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870 to 1931. It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. In 1917 it was purchased by ...

'', a major women's rights publication *

Antoinette Brown Blackwell Antoinette Louisa Brown, later Antoinette Brown Blackwell (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the United States. She was a well-versed public speaker on the paramount iss ...

(1825–1921) – founded American Woman Suffrage Association with

Lucy Stone Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist and Suffrage, suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting Women's rights, rights for women. In 1847, ...

in 1869 *

Henry Browne Blackwell Henry Browne Blackwell (May 4, 1825 – September 7, 1909), was an American advocate for social and economic reform. He was involved in the nascent Republican Party (United States), Republican Party and the American Woman Suffrage Associatio ...

(1825–1909) – businessman, abolitionist, journalist, suffrage leader and campaigner *

Harriot Stanton Blatch Harriot Eaton Blatch ( Stanton; January 20, 1856 – November 20, 1940) was an American writer and suffragist. She was the daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Biography Harriot Eaton Stanton was born, the sixt ...

(1856–1940) – writer, suffragist, daughter of pioneering women's rights activist

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Cady Stanton ( Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 ...

Amelia Bloomer Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associa ...

(1818–1894) – advocate of women's issues, suffragist, publisher and editor of ''The Lily'' *

Helen Gurley Brown Helen Gurley Brown ( Helen Marie Gurley; February 18, 1922 – August 13, 2012) was an American author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was the editor-in-chief of ''Cosmopolitan'' magazine for 32 years. Garner 2009. Early life Helen Mar ...

(1922–2012) – author of '' Sex and the Single Girl'', long-time editor of ''

Cosmopolitan Cosmopolitan may refer to: Internationalism * World citizen, one who eschews traditional geopolitical divisions derived from national citizenship * Cosmopolitanism, the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community * Cosmopolitan ...

'', advocate of women's self-fulfillment *

Lucy Burns Lucy Burns (July 28, 1879 – December 22, 1966) was an American suffragist and women's rights advocate.Bland, 1981 (p. 8) She was a passionate activist in the United States and the United Kingdom, who joined the militant suffragettes. Burns w ...

(1879–1966) – suffragist and women's rights activist *

Christine Michel Carter Christine Michel Carter (née Epps) is an American author and marketing strategist from Baltimore, Maryland. Career Writing Since 2016, Carter has written for ''TIME, Forbes,'' and other national outlets. A viral ''HuffPost'' article Carter ...

(born 1986) – author, advocate of women's reproductive rights *

Carrie Chapman Catt Carrie Chapman Catt (born Carrie Clinton Lane; January 9, 1859#Fowler, Fowler, p. 3 – March 9, 1947) was an American women's suffrage leader who campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which gave U.S. women t ...

(1859–1947) – suffragist leader, president of

National American Woman Suffrage Association The National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was an organization formed on February 18, 1890, to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations, the National Woma ...

, founder of

League of Women Voters The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization. Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include Voter registration, registering voters, providing voter information, boosting voter turnout and adv ...

and

International Alliance of Women The International Alliance of Women (IAW; , AIF) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's rights and gender equality. It was historically the main international organization that campaigned for women's suff ...

Jacqueline Ceballos Jacqueline "Jacqui" Michot Ceballos (born September 8, 1925) is an American feminist and activist. Ceballos is the former president of New York Chapter of the National Organization for Women and founder of the Veteran Feminists of America organi ...

(born 1925) – feminist and founder of

Veteran Feminists of America Veteran Feminists of America (VFA) is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization for supporters and veterans of the second-wave feminist movement. Founded by Jacqueline Ceballos in 1992, Veteran Feminists of America regularly hosts reunions for secon ...

* Rebecca Chalker – women's health writer and activist who fought for abortion rights and promoted self-help techniques for women to avoid the gynecologist's office *

William Henry Channing William Henry Channing (May 25, 1810 – December 23, 1884) was an American Unitarian clergyman, writer and philosopher. Early life William Henry Channing was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Channing's father, Francis Dana Channing, died when he w ...

(1810–1884) – minister, author * Grace Julian Clarke (1865–1938) – suffragist, journalist, author *

Hillary Rodham Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator represent ...

(born 1947) – lawyer, professor, author, First Lady, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, first female presidential nominee in U.S. history *

Mabel Craft Deering Mabel Clare Deering ( Craft; November 5, 1873 – July 8, 1953) was a San Francisco Bay Area socialite, journalist and supporter of progressive causes such as women's suffrage and the admission of black women to a national women's organization. A ...

(1873–1953) – journalist *

Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 – February 20, 1895) was an American social reformer, Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. He was the most impor ...

(1818–1895) – abolitionist, writer, speaker * Virginia Hewlett Douglass (1849–1889) – suffragist * Carol Downer (born 1933) – founder of women's self-help movement, feminist, attorney * Muriel Fox (born 1928) – public relations executive and feminist activist * Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – suffragist, civil rights activist, participated in Suffrage Hikes *

Nancy Friday Nancy Colbert Friday (August 27, 1933 – November 5, 2017) was an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation. Her writings argue that women have often been reared under an ideal of womanhood, which was outdated ...

(1933–2017) – writer and activist *

Betty Friedan Betty Friedan (; February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book '' The Feminine Mystique'' is often credited with sparking the s ...

(1921–2006) – writer, activist, feminist *

Margaret Fuller Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), sometimes referred to as Margaret Fuller Ossoli, was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movemen ...

(1810–1850) – Transcendentalist, advocate of women's education, author of ''

Woman in the Nineteenth Century ''Woman in the Nineteenth Century'' is a book by American journalist, editor, and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller. Originally published in July 1843 in ''The Dial'' magazine as "The Great Lawsuit. Man versus Men. Woman versus Women", it w ...

'' *

Matilda Joslyn Gage Matilda Joslyn Gage ( Joslyn; March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, aboli ...

(1826–1898) – suffragist, editor, writer, organizer *

William Lloyd Garrison William Lloyd Garrison (December , 1805 – May 24, 1879) was an Abolitionism in the United States, American abolitionist, journalist, and reformism (historical), social reformer. He is best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper ''The ...

(1805–1879) – abolitionist, journalist, organizer, advocate *

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg ( ; Bader; March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until Death and state funeral of Ruth Bader ...

(1933–2020) – academic and lawyer for several women's rights cases before the

United States Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on question ...

; she herself became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993. *

Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born Anarchism, anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europ ...

(1869–1940) – campaigner for birth control and other rights * Judy Goldsmith (born 1938) – feminist activist, President of

National Organization for Women The National Organization for Women (NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. It ...

(NOW) * Helen M. Gougar (1843–1907) – lawyer, temperance and women's rights advocate * Emiliana Guereca (fl. 2016) - Mexican-America feminist and entrepreneur * Grace Greenwood (1823–1904) – first woman reporter on ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of ...

'', advocate of social reform and women's rights *

Thomas Wentworth Higginson Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823May 9, 1911), who went by the name Wentworth, was an American Unitarianism, Unitarian minister, author, Abolitionism, abolitionist, politician, and soldier. He was active in abolitionism in the United ...

(1828–1911) – abolitionist, minister, author * Marjorie Hillis (1889–1971) – author writing in support of single working women * Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907) – leader, lecturer and activist in the American Suffragist movement *

Julia Ward Howe Julia Ward Howe ( ; May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was an American author and poet, known for writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" as new lyrics to an existing song, and the original 1870 pacifist Mothers' Day Proclamation. She w ...

(1818–1910) – suffragist, writer, organizer * Jane Hunt (1812–1889) – philanthropist * Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – suffragist and organizer of the Suffrage Hikes *

Abby Kelley Abby Kelley Foster (January 15, 1811 – January 14, 1887) was an American abolitionist and radical social reformer active from the 1830s to 1870s. She became a fundraiser, lecturer and committee organizer for the influential American Anti-S ...

(1811–1887) – opponent of slavery, women's rights activist, one of the first women to voice views in public speeches * Kate Kelly (born 1980) – feminist and human rights lawyer, founder of Ordain Women, works for

Planned Parenthood The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization

Eva Kotchever Eva Kotchever (1891 – 19 December 1943), known also as Eve Adams or Eve Addams, born as Chawa Złoczower, was a Polish-Jewish émigré librarian and writer, who is the author of ''Lesbian Love'' and from 1925 to 1926 ran a popular, openly les ...

(1891–1943) – friend of

, owner of the

Eve's Hangout Eve's Hangout was a New York City lesbian nightclub established by Polish-Jewish feminist Eva Kotchever in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, in 1925. The establishment was also known as "Eve Adams' Tearoom", a pun on the names Eve and Adam. H ...

in New York, assassinated at

Auschwitz Auschwitz, or Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschw ...

* Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896–1966) – suffragist, advocate for women's rights and for the Chinese immigrant community *

Mary Livermore Mary Ashton Livermore ( Rice; December 19, 1820May 23, 1905) was an American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of women's rights. Her printed volumes included: ''Thirty Years Too Late,'' first published in 1847 as a prize temperance tale, ...

(1820–1905) – suffragist and women's rights journalist * Ah Quon McElrath (1915–2008) – labor and women's rights activist *

Inez Milholland Inez Milholland Boissevain (August 6, 1886 – November 25, 1916) was a leading American suffragist, lawyer, and peace activist. From her college days at Vassar College, she campaigned aggressively for women’s rights as the principal issue of ...

(1886–1916) – suffragist, key participant in

National Woman's Party The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage. After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP ...

and

Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 The Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913, was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C. It was also the first large, organized march on Washington for political purposes. The procession was organized by the suffragists Alice Paul a ...

* Lee Minto (born 1927) – women's health and rights activist, sex education advocate, former Executive Director of Seattle-King County

Planned Parenthood The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization

Janet Mock Janet Mock (born March 10, 1983) is an American writer, television producer, and transgender rights activist. Her debut book, the memoir '' Redefining Realness'', became a ''New York Times'' bestseller. She is a contributing editor for ''Marie ...

(born 1983) – writer,

transgender rights The legal status of transgender people varies greatly around the world. Some countries have enacted laws protecting the rights of transgender individuals, but others have criminalized their gender identity or expression. In many cases, transg ...

activist, producer, journalist *

Robin Morgan Robin Morgan (born January 29, 1941) is an American poet, writer, activist, journalist, lecturer and former child actor. Since the early 1960s, she has been a key Radical feminism, radical feminist member of the American Feminist movement, Wom ...

(born 1941) – poet, political theorist, journalist, lecturer *

Lucretia Mott Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quakers, Quaker, Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position ...

(1793–1880) – abolitionist, women's rights activist, social reformer, who helped write

Declaration of Sentiments The Declaration of Sentiments, also known as the Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, is a document signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men—100 out of some 300 attendees at the first women's rights convention to be organized by women. Held in Se ...

during 1848

Seneca Falls Convention The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca ...

Pauli Murray Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985) was an American civil rights activist, advocate, legal scholar and theorist, author and – later in life – an Episcopal priest. Murray's work influenced the civil r ...

(1910–1985) – civil and women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest
additional text. *

Diane Nash Diane Judith Nash (born May 15, 1938) is an American civil rights activist, and a leader and strategist of the student wing of the Civil Rights Movement. Nash's campaigns were among the most successful of the era. Her efforts included the first s ...

(born 1938) – Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights exponent *

John Neal John Neal (August 25, 1793 – June 20, 1876) was an American writer, critic, editor, lecturer, and activist. Considered both eccentric and influential, he delivered speeches and published essays, novels, poems, and short stories between the 1 ...

(1793–1876) – eccentric, writer and critic, America's first women's rights lecturer * Zelda Kingoff Nordlinger (1932–2008) – instigator of first rape-reform laws * Rose O'Neill (1874–1944) – famous illustrator (Kewpie creator) who worked for women's right to vote by creating posters and advertising material to promoting the women's movement * Mary Hutcheson Page (1860–1940) – member of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government,

, and National Executive Committee of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, 1910 President of the

National Woman Suffrage Association The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was created after the women's rights movement spl ...

* Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) – founder College Equal Suffrage League, first president

* Adele Parker (1870–1956) – ardent suffragist, 1903 University of Washington law school graduate, 1911–1913 owned and operated the Western Woman Voter newspaper, 1934 House Representative 37th District in WA * Deborah Parker (born 1970) – major player in the

Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 The Violence Against Women Act of 1994 (VAWA) is a United States federal law (Title IV of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, ) signed by President Bill Clinton on September13, 1994. The Act provided $1.6billion toward investigat ...

and activist for indigenous women's rights *

Alice Paul Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the Unit ...

(1885–1977) – one of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment, founder of

, initiator of

Silent Sentinels The Silent Sentinels, also known as the Sentinels of Liberty, were an American group of over 2,000 women in favor of women's suffrage organized by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party, who nonviolently protested in front of the White House ...

and 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of the proposed

Equal Rights Amendment The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, United States Constitution that would explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It is not currently a part of the Constitution, though its Ratifi ...

(1903–1983) – see Belgium *

Wendell Phillips Wendell Phillips (November 29, 1811 – February 2, 1884) was an American abolitionist, labor reformer, temperance activist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney. According to George Lewis Ruffin, a black attorney, Phillip ...

(1811–1884) – abolitionist, orator, lawyer * Mónica Ramírez – author, civil rights attorney, speaker *

Margaret Sanger Margaret Sanger ( Higgins; September 14, 1879September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse. She opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, founded Planned Parenthood, and was instr ...

(1879–1966) – writer, nurse, founder

American Birth Control League The American Birth Control League (ABCL) was founded by Margaret Sanger in 1921 at the First American Birth Control Conference in New York City. The organization promoted the founding of birth control clinics and encouraged women to control their ...

, founder and first president of

Planned Parenthood The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization

* May Wright Sewall (1844–1920) – educator, feminist, president of National Council of Women for the United States, president of the

Anna Howard Shaw Anna Howard Shaw (February 14, 1847 – July 2, 1919) was a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She was also a physician and one of the first women to be ordained as a Methodist minister in the United States. Early li ...

(1847–1919) – president of National Women's Suffrage Association * Pauline Agassiz Shaw (1841–1917) – founder president of Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government * Eleanor Smeal (born 1939) – organizer, initiator, president of

NOW Now most commonly refers to the present time. Now, NOW, or The Now may also refer to: Organizations * Natal Organisation of Women, a South African women's organization * National Organization for Women, an American feminist organization * Na ...

, founder and president of the

Feminist Majority Foundation The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) is an American non-profit organization headquartered in Arlington County, Virginia, whose stated mission is to advance non-violence and women's power, equality, and economic development. The name Feminist Maj ...

(1815–1902) – social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of

and

Gloria Steinem Gloria Marie Steinem ( ; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social movement, social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...

(born 1934) – writer, activist, feminist, women's rights journalist *

Doris Stevens Doris Stevens (born Dora Caroline Stevens; October 26, 1888 – March 22, 1963) was an American suffragist, woman's legal rights advocate and author. She was the first female member of the American Institute of International Law and first chai ...

(1892–1963) – organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and

participant, author of ''Jailed for Freedom'' *

(1818–1893) – orator, one of the initiators of the first

National Women's Rights Convention The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women's Rights Conventio ...

, founder of ''

'', force behind the American Woman Suffrage Association, noted for retaining her surname after marriage *Roshini Thinakaran – film-maker focusing on lives of women in post-conflict zones *Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) – Buffalo and New York suffragist, later journalist and radio broadcaster *Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) – Abolitionism in the United States, abolitionist, women's rights activist and speaker *Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer (1892–1986) – American artist, architect, women's rights activist *Maryly Van Leer Peck (1930–2011) – academic, first female engineer at Vanderbilt University, pioneer, women's rights activist and board member of Society of Women Engineers *Frances Willard (suffragist), Frances Willard (1839–1898) – long-time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which, under her leadership, supported women's suffrage *Mabel Vernon (1883–1975) – suffragist, member of Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, organizer for

*Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) – civil rights and anti-lynching activist, journalist, educator,

noted for refusal to avoid media attention as an African American *Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – suffragist, eugenicist, publisher, organizer, first woman to run for U.S. presidency *Dr. Mary Walker (1832–1919) – suffragist, doctor, activist, surgeon during the Civil War, recipient of the Medal of Honor

Uruguay

*María Abella de Ramírez (1863–1926) – feminist noted for her role in establishing Uruguayan and Argentine women's groups in the early 1900s

Vanuatu

* Motarilavoa Hilda Lin̄i – Turaga nation, Turaga chief and women's rights activists * Grace Mera Molisa (1946–2002) – politician, poet, gender equality advocate * Jocelyn Naupa – politician, gender equality advocate, domestic violence activist * Merilyn Tahi (born 1950) – domestic violence activist

Venezuela

*Sheyene Gerardi – human rights advocate, peace activist, founder of the SPACE movement

Yemen

*Muna Luqman – activist, peace builder, founder of the organization Food4Humanity and co-founder of Women in Solidarity Network

Zambia

*Lily Monze (born 1936) – teacher, politician and women's rights activist

Zimbabwe

*Glanis Changachirere (born 1983) – women's rights activist and organizer, founder of the Institute for Young Women Development (IYWD) *Talent Jumo (born 1980/1981) – teacher, co-founder and director of the Katswe Sistahood *Nyaradzo Mashayamombe (born 1980) – women's and human rights advocate, founder of Tag A Life International Trust (TaLI)

References

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