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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 (1920–2018), women's rights activist and politician
Estrid Hein (1873–1956) – Danish ophthalmologist, women's rights activist and pacifist; Ellen Hørup (1871–1953) – Danish writer, pacifist and women's rights activist; Johanne Meyer (1838–1915) – pioneering Danish suffragist, pacifist and journal editor; Eva Moltesen (1871–1934) – Finnish-Danish writer and peace activist
Major figure in early women's movement in Ireland, founded the Dublin Women's Suffrage Association: 1800–1874: Anna Hierta-Retzius: Sweden: 1841: 1924: Women's rights activist and philanthropist: 1800–1874: Thomas Wentworth Higginson: United States: 1828: 1911: Abolitionist, minister, author: 1800–1874: Marie Hoheisel: Austria: 1873: 1947 ...
Some of the most incredible inventors, writers, politicians, & activists have been women. From Ida B. Wells to Sally Ride, here are women who changed the world. 22 Famous Women in History You Need ...
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
Parks became one of the most impactful Black women in American history almost overnight when she refused to move to the “colored” section of a public bus in 1955. ... W.E.B. Du Bois was a ...
These three generations of Black women activists — Mary-Pat Hector, 26; Melanie Campbell, 61; Judy Richardson, 80 — use different tactics and strategies, but all work to register communities ...