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Notable women's rights activists are as follows, arranged alphabetically by modern country names and by the names of the persons listed:

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Australia

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  • Rosie Batty (born 1962) – 2015 Australian of the Year and family violence campaigner
  • Eva Cox (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 (1866–1927) – telegraphist and labour organizer
  • Elizabeth Evatt (born 1933) – legal reformist, jurist, critic of Australia's Sex Discrimination Act, first Australian in United Nations Commission on Human Rights
  • Miles Franklin (1879–1954) – writer and feminist
  • Vida Goldstein (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 (born 1939) – author of The Female Eunuch, academic and social commentator
  • Bella Guerin (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
  • Louisa Lawson (1848–1920) – feminist, suffragist, author, founder of The Dawn, pro-republican federalist
  • Fiona Patten (born 1964) – leader of Australian Sex Party, lobbyist for personal freedoms and progressive lifestyles
  • Michelle Payne (born 1985) – first female winner of Melbourne Cup and an advocate of increased presence of women in sport
  • Eileen Powell (1913–1997) – trade unionist, women's activist and contributor to the Equal Pay for Equal Work decision
  • Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883–1955) – first female member of New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 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), active in the United Nations 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)
  • Jessie Street (1889–1970) – Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner influential in labour rights and early days of the UN
  • Anne Summers (born 1945) – women's rights activist in politics and media, women's advisor to Labor premier Paul Keating, editor of Ms. magazine (NY)
  • Mary Hynes Swanton (1861–1940) – Australian women's rights and trade unionist

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    Belgium

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    Bosnia & Herzegovina

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    Botswana

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    Brazil

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  • Márcia Campos (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 activist
  • Lily Marinho (1921–2011) – UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Brazil from 1999 TO 2011
  • Míriam Martinho (born 1954) – leading feminist journalist and LGBT rights activist, known for her pioneering in Lesbian Feminism
  • 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 professor
  • Miêtta Santiago (1903–1995) – suffragist, feminit activist, writer and poet
  • Viviane Senna (born 1957) – president of the Instituto Ayrton Senna
  • Yara Yavelberg (1943–1971) – university lecturer and part of the resistance against military dictatorship in Brazil

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

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    Canada

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    Cape Verde

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    Chad

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    Chile

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    China

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  • Chen Xiefen (1883–1923) – feminist, revolutionary and journalist
  • Fok Hing-tong (1872–1957)
  • He Xiangning (1878–1972)
  • Huixing (educator) (1871–1905)
  • Jiang Shufang (1867–1928) – school pioneer
  • Li Maizi (born 1989)
  • Lin Zongsu (1878–1944)
  • Liu-Wang Liming (1897–1970)
  • Lü Jinghua (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
  • Xie Xuehong (1901–1970)
  • Ye Haiyan (born 1975)
  • Zheng Churan

    • Colombia

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    Croatia

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    Democratic Republic of Congo

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    Denmark

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  • Widad Akrawi (born 1969) – writer and doctor, advocate for gender equality, women's empowerment 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 (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 (1920–2018), women's rights activist and politician
  • Ulla Dahlerup (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 (1946–2012) – writer, women's rights activist, prominent member of the Red Stocking Movement
  • Bente Hansen (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 (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 (1823–1891) – feminist, suffragist, founder of the Danish Women's Suffrage Society
  • Elisabeth Møller Jensen (born 1946) – historian, feminist, director of Kvinfo from 1990 to 2014
  • Thora Knudsen (1861–1950), nurse, women's rights activist and philanthropist
  • Nynne Koch (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 (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
  • 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

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    Egypt

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  • 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
  • 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

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    Finland

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  • Soraya Bahgat (born 1983) – see Egypt
  • Elisabeth Blomqvist (1827–1901) – pioneering female educator
  • Minna Canth (1844–1897) – writer, women's rights proponent
  • Adelaïde Ehrnrooth (1826–1905) – feminist, writer, early fighter for voting rights
  • Alexandra Gripenberg (1857–1913) – writer, women's rights activist, treasurer of the International Council of Women
  • Lucina Hagman (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

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  • Hubertine Auclert (1848–1914) – feminist activist, suffragette
  • Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) – philosopher, writer
  • Marie-Thérèse Lucidor Corbin (1749–1834) – French Creole activist and abolitionist in the French colonies
  • Charles Fourier (1772–1837) – philosopher
  • Françoise Giroud (1916–2003) – journalist, writer, politician
  • Olympe de Gouges (1748–1793) – playwright and political activist who wrote the 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
  • 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 (1839–1916) – journalist, novelist, feminist
  • Anne-Josèphe Théroigne de Méricourt (1762–1817) – politician
  • Flora Tristan (1803–1844) French-Peruvian activist, early advocate of socialism and feminism
  • Louise Weiss (1893–1983) – journalist, writer, politician

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  • Ruth Bré (c. 1862/67–1911) – writer, advocate of matrilineality and women's rights, founder of Bund für Mutterschutz (League for Maternity Leave)[1]
  • Johanna Elberskirchen (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 (1848–1930) – educator, pioneering women's rights activist, suffragist
  • Sigrid Metz-Göckel (born 1940) – sociologist, gender studies academic
  • Ursula G. T. Müller (born 1940) – sociologist, gender studies academic
  • Louise Otto-Peters (1819–1895) – suffragist, women's rights activist, writer
  • Alice Salomon (1872–1948) – social reformer, women's rights activist, educator, writer
  • Käthe Schirmacher (1865–1930) – early women's rights activist, writer
  • Auguste Schmidt (1833–1902) – pioneering women's rights activist, educator, journalist
  • Alice Schwarzer (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 starting in 1919.
  • Marianne Weber (1870–1954) – sociologist, women's rights activist, writer
  • Clara Zetkin (1857–1933) – Marxist theorist, women's rights activist, suffragist, politician

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    Greece

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    Greenland

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    Haiti

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    Hungary

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    Iceland

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    India

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  • 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, established All India Women's Conference, co-founded Irish Women's Franchise League
  • Madhusree Dutta (born 1959) – co-founder of Majlis, Mumbai, author, cultural activist, filmmaker, curator
  • Rehana Fathima (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 (born 1987) – founder of The Red Elephant Foundation, rights activist, campaigner against violence against women
  • Shruti Kapoor – 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 – senior advocate
  • Swati Maliwal (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 (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

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    Iran

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  • 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 (1882–1962) – journalist and women's rights activist
  • Shirin Ebadi (born 1947) – activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner for efforts for rights of women and children
  • Mohtaram Eskandari (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 (born 1975) – women's rights activist
  • Shahla Sherkat (born 1956) – journalist
  • Táhirih (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

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  • 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) – physician, surgeon and suffragist

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  • Esther Eillam (1939–2023) – founder of the Feminist Movement organization; Mizrahi second wave and Mizrahi feminism activist
  • Carmen Elmakiyes (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 (born 1954) – executive director, Israel Religious Action Center; director and founding member, Women of the Wall
  • 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
  • Vicki Knafo (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 (1947–2004) – one of the founders of the Mizrahi feminism movement
  • Iris Stern Levi (born 1953) – activist for rehabilitation of trafficked women

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    Japan

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    Jordan

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    Kazakhstan

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    Kenya

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    Latvia

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    Lebanon

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    Libya

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    Lithuania

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    Luxembourg

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    Mali

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    Mauritania

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    Netherlands

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    Nigeria

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    Norway

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  • Irene Bauer (1945–2016), government official, activist
  • Anna Louise Beer (1924–2010), lawyer, judge, activist
  • Margunn Bjørnholt (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 (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 (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 (born 1947), politician, activist
  • Amalie Øvergaard (1874–1960), women's leader, active in housewives associations
  • Kjellaug Pettersen (1934–2012), government official, politician, gender equality proponent
  • Kjellaug Pettersen (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 (born 1936), psychologist, politician, women's rights leader
  • Kari Skjønsberg (1926–2003), academic, writer, activist
  • Anna Stang (1834–1901), politician, women's rights leader
  • Sigrid Stray (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 (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 (1865–1952), musician, activist
  • Gunhild Ziener (1868–1937), pioneer in the women's movement, editor

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    Pakistan

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    Peru

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    Philippines

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    Poland

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    Portugal

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    Puerto Rico

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    Romania

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    Russia

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    Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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    Saudi Arabia

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    Serbia

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  • Sophie Adlersparre (1823–1895) – publisher, women's rights activist, pioneer
  • Alma Åkermark (1853–1933) – editor, journalist, activist
  • Ellen Anckarsvärd (1833–1898) – women's rights activist, co-founded Föreningen för gift kvinnas äganderätt (Married Woman's Property Rights Association)
  • Carolina Benedicks-Bruce (1856–1935) – sculptor, rights activist
  • Ellen Bergman (1842–1921) – musician, rights activist
  • Fredrika Bremer (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 (1850–1920) – philanthropist feminist, chairman of the Fredrika Bremer Association
  • Ebba von Eckermann (1866–1960) – women's rights activist
  • Ruth Gustafson (1881–1960) – politician, trade unionist, women's rights activist, editor
  • Anna Hierta-Retzius (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
  • Ruth Gustafson (1881–1960) – politician, union worker and women's rights activist
  • Ellen Hagen (1873–1967) – suffragette, rights activist, politician
  • Lina Hjort (1881–1959) – schoolteacher, house builder and suffragist
  • Amanda Kerfstedt (1835–1920) – writer, active in the women's rights movement
  • Ellen Kleman (1867–1943) – writer, journal editor, women's rights activist
  • Lotten von Kræmer (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 (1906–1995), librarian and feminist
  • Sara Mohammad (born 1967) – Iraqi Kurdish-born Swedish human rights activist campaigning against honour killing
  • Agda Montelius (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 (1857–1935) – journalist, writer and feminist
  • Sophie Sager, (1825–1902) – women's rights activist and writer
  • Anna Sandström (1854–1931) – educational reformer
  • Ida Schmidt (1857–1932) – women's rights activist, educator, politician
  • Alexandra Skoglund (1862–1938) – suffragette, activist, politician
  • Frida Stéenhoff (1865–1945) – writer, women's rights activist
  • Elisabeth Tamm (1880–1958) – politician, women's rights activist
  • Kajsa Wahlberg – Sweden's national rapporteur on human trafficking opposition activities
  • Anna Whitlock (1852–1930) – school pioneer, journalist and feminist

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  • Jane Austen (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 and the forerunner of the Women's Industrial Council
  • 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 (1858–64)
  • Jessie Boucherett (1825–1905) – co-founder of Society for Promoting the Employment of Women 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 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 International Council of Women (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 (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 (1847–1929) – suffragist and feminist, president of National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
  • 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 Unioninjujutsu techniques
  • Katharine Gatty (1870–1952) – journalist, lecturer, militant suffragette
  • Cicely Hamilton (1872–1952) – English actress, writer, journalist, suffragist, feminist
  • Diana Reader Harris (1912–1996) – educator and advocate of female ordination in the Church of England
  • Matilda Hays (1820–1897) – co-founder of first journal to press for women's rights, the English Woman's Journal (1858–64)
  • Margaret Hills (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
  • Leyla Hussein – Somali-born British psychotherapist and social activist, co-founder of the Daughters of Eve

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  • 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 into the United States
  • 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[3][4]
  • Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – feminist and journalist, editor of the Woman's Journal, a major women's rights publication
  • Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) – founded American Woman Suffrage Association with Lucy Stone in 1869
  • Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) – businessman, abolitionist, journalist, suffrage leader and campaigner
  • Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856–1940) – writer, suffragist, daughter of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – advocate of women's issues, suffragist, publisher and editor of The Lily
  • Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012) – author of Sex and the Single Girl, long-time editor of Cosmopolitan, advocate of women's self-fulfillment
  • Lucy Burns (1879–1966) – suffragist and women's rights activist
  • Christine Michel Carter (born 1986) – author, advocate of women's reproductive rights
  • Carrie Chapman Catt (1859–1947) – suffragist leader, president of National American Woman Suffrage Association, founder of League of Women Voters and International Alliance of Women
  • Jacqueline Ceballos (born 1925) – feminist and founder of Veteran Feminists of America
  • 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 (1810–1884) – minister, author
  • Grace Julian Clarke (1865–1938) – suffragist, journalist, author
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton (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 (1873–1953) – journalist
  • Frederick Douglass (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[5]
  • Elisabeth Freeman (1876–1942) – suffragist, civil rights activist, participated in Suffrage Hikes
  • Nancy Friday (1933–2017) – writer and activist
  • Betty Friedan (1921–2006) – writer, activist, feminist
  • Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) – Transcendentalist, advocate of women's education, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century
  • Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) – suffragist, editor, writer, organizer
  • William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) – abolitionist, journalist, organizer, advocate
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933–2020) – academic and lawyer for several women's rights cases before the United States Supreme Court; she herself became a Supreme Court Justice in 1993.
  • Emma Goldman (1869–1940) – campaigner for birth control and other rights
  • Judy Goldsmith (born 1938) – feminist activist, President of National Organization for Women (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, advocate of social reform and women's rights
  • Thomas Wentworth Higginson (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 (1818–1910) – suffragist, writer, organizer
  • Jane Hunt (1812–1889) – philanthropist
  • Rosalie Gardiner Jones (1883–1978) – suffragist and organizer of the Suffrage Hikes
  • Abby Kelley (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
  • Eva Kotchever (1891–1943) – friend of Emma Goldman, owner of the Eve's Hangout in New York, assassinated at Auschwitz
  • Mabel Ping-Hua Lee (1896–1966) – suffragist, advocate for women's rights and for the Chinese immigrant community
  • Mary Livermore (1820–1905) – suffragist and women's rights journalist
  • Ah Quon McElrath (1915–2008) – labor and women's rights activist
  • Inez Milholland (1886–1916) – suffragist, key participant in National Woman's Party and Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913
  • Lee Minto (born 1927) – women's health and rights activist, sex education advocate, former Executive Director of Seattle-King County Planned Parenthood
  • Janet Mock (born 1983) – writer, transgender rights activist, producer, journalist
  • Robin Morgan (born 1941) – poet, political theorist, journalist, lecturer
  • Lucretia Mott (1793–1880) – abolitionist, women's rights activist, social reformer, who helped write Declaration of Sentiments during 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
  • Pauli Murray (1910–1985) – civil and women's rights activist, lawyer, Episcopal priest[6]
  • Diane Nash (born 1938) – Civil Rights Movement leader and organizer, voting rights exponent
  • John Neal (1793–1876) – eccentric, writer and critic, America's first women's rights lecturer[7]
  • 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, National American Woman Suffrage Association, and National Executive Committee of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage, 1910 President of the National Woman Suffrage Association
  • Maud Wood Park (1871–1955) – founder College Equal Suffrage League, first president League of Women Voters
  • Adele Parker (1870–1956) – ardent suffragist, 1903 University of Washington law school graduate, 1911–1913 owned and operated the Western Woman Voter newspaper,[8] 1934 House Representative 37th District in WA
  • Deborah Parker (born 1970) – major player in the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013[9][10] and activist for indigenous women's rights[9]
  • Alice Paul (1885–1977) – one of the leaders of the 1910s Women's Voting Rights Movement for the 19th Amendment, founder of National Woman's Party, initiator of Silent Sentinels and 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade, author of the proposed Equal Rights Amendment
  • Frédérique Petrides (1903–1983) – see Belgium
  • Wendell Phillips (1811–1884) – abolitionist, orator, lawyer
  • Mónica Ramírez – author, civil rights attorney, speaker
  • Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) – writer, nurse, founder American Birth Control League, founder and first president of Planned Parenthood
  • May Wright Sewall (1844–1920) – educator, feminist, president of National Council of Women for the United States, president of the International Council of Women
  • Anna Howard Shaw (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, founder and president of the Feminist Majority Foundation
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902) – social activist, abolitionist, suffragist, organizer of 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of National Woman Suffrage Association and International Council of Women
  • Gloria Steinem (born 1934) – writer, activist, feminist, women's rights journalist
  • Doris Stevens (1892–1963) – organizer for National American Women Suffrage Association and National Woman's Party, Silent Sentinels participant, author of Jailed for Freedom
  • Lucy Stone (1818–1893) – orator, one of the initiators of the first National Women's Rights Convention, founder of Woman's Journal, 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) – 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 (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 Silent Sentinels
  • Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) – civil rights and anti-lynching activist, journalist, educator, suffragist 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

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  • List of suffragists and suffragettes
  • List of women pacifists and peace activists
  • List of women's rights organizations
  • Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries
  • Timeline of women's rights (other than voting)
  • Timeline of women's suffrage
  • Women's suffrage organizations

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    1. ^ Richard J. Evans: The feminist movement in Germany. London, Beverly Hills 1976 (SAGE Studies in 20th Century History, Vol. 6). ISBN 0-8039-9951-8, S. 120
  • ^ Prah, Mansah (2002). "Jiagge, Annie (1918–1996)". In Commire, Anne (ed.). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Waterford, Connecticut: Yorkin Publications. ISBN 0-7876-4074-3. Archived from the original on 2016-04-09.
  • ^ Parker, Jacqueline (1974). Helen Valeska Bary: Labor Administration and Social Security: A Woman's Life. Berkeley CA: University of California.
  • ^ Santiago-Valles, Kelvin A. (1994). Subject People and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social Disorder in Puerto Rico, 1898–1947. SUNY Press. pp. 58, 161. ISBN 9781438418650. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  • ^ "Fox, Muriel, 1928- . Papers of NOW officer Muriel Fox, 1966–1971: A Finding Aid". Oasis.lib.harvard.edu. 1928-02-03. Archived from the original on 2018-07-03. Retrieved 2018-02-21.
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  • ^ Daggett, Windsor. A Down-East Yankee From the District of Maine. A.J. Huston, 1920, p. 30.
  • ^ "Western Women's Suffrage Newspapers". Accessible Archives Inc. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  • ^ a b Lane, Temryss MacLean (January 15, 2018). "The frontline of refusal: indigenous women warriors of standing rock". International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. 31 (3). Routledge: 209. doi:10.1080/09518398.2017.1401151. eISSN 1366-5898. ISSN 0951-8398. S2CID 149347362. Her courage in sharing her personal story of sexual violence with congress was vital in the passing of the 2013 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). [...] Her dignified poise and presence was pivotal and necessary to pass the tribal provisions that protect Native women and their communities in the VAWA.
  • ^ Nichols, John (May 24, 2016). "The Democratic Platform Committee Now Has a Progressive Majority. Thanks, Bernie Sanders". Democrats. The Nation. Katrina vanden Heuvel. ISSN 0027-8378. Archived from the original on June 3, 2018. Retrieved June 3, 2018. The Sanders selections are all noted progressives: [...] Native American activist and former Tulalip Tribes Vice Chair Deborah Parker (a key advocate for reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act) [...].

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