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Fatima Jinnah
Fatima Jinnah was one of the leading founders of Pakistan, known as the ‘Mother of the Nation’ for her role in the Freedom Movement.
Ann Shanks
Ann Shanks was a dressmaker from Dundee whose home was a safehouse for militant Suffragettes.
Nellie Letitia McClung
Nellie Letitia McClung was was one of “The Famous Five” who launched a case in 1927 contending that women could be “qualified persons” eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate, clearing the way for women to enter politics in Canada.
Jane Arthur
Jane Arthur was a suffragist from Paisley who became the first Scottish woman to be elected to a Scottish school board in 1873.
Flora McDonald Denison
Flora McDonald Denison was a Canadian dressmaker, writer, journalist, innkeeper, social reformer, feminist, and suffragist.
Eunice Guthrie Murray
Eunice Guthrie Murray was a Suffragist, political activist, historian, and author who championed women’s rights throughout her life.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist, human rights activist and one of the first leaders of the woman’s rights movement in America.
Jane Taylour
Jane Taylour was a Suffragist and one of the first women to give lectures in public.
Margaret Fraser Smith
Margaret Fraser Smith, a Suffragette was imprisoned for trying to disrupt a meeting, went on hunger strike and was released to loud cheers from the crowd that had gathered to greet her and sister hunger strikers.
Tekla Hultin
Tekla Hultin was Finland’s second female doctor and founded the Finnish Women’s Union in 1907.