List of women's rights activists

This article is a list of notable women's rights activists.

List

• Sophie Adlersparre (1823-1895) - Swedish publisher and women's rights activist
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969-) - Somali-Dutch feminist and atheist activist, writer and politician
• Qasim Amin (1863-1908) - Egyptian jurist, early advocate of women’s rights in Egyptian society
• Parvin Ardalan (1967-) - Iranian women's rights activist
• Bibi Khanoom Astarabadi (1859–1921) - Iranian writer
• Alice Stone Blackwell (1857-1950) - U.S. feminist and journalist, editor of the Woman's Journal, a major women's rights publication
• Ansar Burney (1956-) - Pakistani women's rights activist
• Lucy Burns (1879-1966) - American suffragist and women's rights activist
• Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922) - Puerto Rican labor union suffragette; jailed for wearing pants in public
• Marguerite Coppin (1867-1931) - woman poet laureate of Belgium and advocate of women's rights.
• Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) - French playwright and political activist who wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791
• Unity Dow (1959-) - judge and writer from Botswana, plaintiff in a case that allowed children of Motswana women and foreign men to be considered Batswana.
• Sediqeh Dowlatabadi (1882-1962) - Iranian journalist and women's rights activist
• Shirin Ebadi (1947-) - On December 10, 2003, Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts for the rights of women and children.
• Mohtaram Eskandari (1895–1924) - Iranian woman's rights activist, founder of "Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah" (Society of Patriotic Women)
• Anna Filosofova (1837-1912) - Early Russian woman's rights activist
• Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) - Transcendentalist, critic, advocate for women's education, author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century
• Edith Margaret Garrud (1872–1971) Trained the 'Bodyguard' unit of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in jujutsu self-defence techniques.
• Engy Ghozlan (1985-) - Coordinator of campaigns against sexual harassment in Egypt
• Judy Goldsmith (1938-) American feminist activist, President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) from 1982 to 1985.
• Grace Greenwood (1823-1904) - first woman reporter on the New York Times payroll, advocate for social reform and women's rights
• Marianne Hainisch (1839-1936) - Austrian activist, proponent of women’s right to work and to receive education
• Enver Hoxha (1908-1985) - Albanian communist leader, notorious for his defense of Albanian women's rights. He was responsible for the abolition of the misogynist Code of Lekë Dukagjini
• Sheema Kalbasi (1972-) - Iranian writer and advocate for human rights and gender equality
• Raden Adjeng Kartini (1879-1904) - Javanese advocate for native Indonesian women, critic of polygamous marriages and lack of education opportunities for women
• Noushin Ahmadi khorasani (1970-) - Iranian women's rights activist
• Jamie McIntosh (21st century) - Canadian lawyer and women's rights activist
• Laure Moghaizel (1929-1997) - Lebanese lawyer and women's rights advocate
• Diane Nash (1938-)
• Sophie D. Ogutu (1976-) - World March of Women Kenya, coordinator 5Cs Human Rights Theatre GroupKenya.
• Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928) - was one of the founders of the British suffragette movement
• Alice Paul (1885-1977) - American suffragist and women's rights activist
• Frédérique Petrides (1903-1983) - Belgian-American pioneering orchestral conductor, activist and editor from 1935-1940 of Women in Music, a series of periodicals chronicling the activities of women in music from the ancient Egyptian times to the then present.
• Jyotiba Phule (1827-1890) - Indian social reformer, critic of the caste system, founded a school for girls, a widow-remarriage initiative, a home for upper caste widows, and a home for infant girls to discourage female infanticide
• Dora Russell (1894-1986) - British progressive campaigner, advocate of marriage reform, birth control and female emancipation
• Nawal el-Saadawi (born 1931) - Egyptian writer and doctor, advocate for women’s health and equality
• Shadi Sadr (1975-) - Iranian women's rights activist
• Hoda Shaarawi (1879-1947) - Egyptian feminist, organizer for the Mubarrat Muhammad Ali (women’s social service organization), the Union of Educated Egyption Women and the Wafdist Women’s Central Committee, founder and first president of the Egyptian Feminist Union
• Shamima Shaikh (1960-1998) - South African activist, member of the Muslim Youth Movement of South Africa, proponent of Islamic gender equality
• Kate Sheppard (1847-1934) - New Zealand suffragette, influential in winning voting rights for women in 1893 (the first national election in which women were allowed to vote)
• Shahla Sherkat (1956-) - Iranian journalist
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) - American social activist, abolitionist, and suffragette, organizer of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention, co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the International Council of Women
• Lucy Stone (1818-1893) - Founder of the Woman's Journal, organizer of the first National Women's Rights Convention, and first recorded American woman to retain her surname after marriage
• Emily Howard Stowe (1831-1903) – Canadian physician, advocate for women's inclusion in the medical professional community, founder of the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association
• Táhirih (?-1852) - Bábí poet, theologian, and proponent of women's rights in 19th-century Iran.
• Roya Toloui (Born 1966) - Iranian women's rights activist
• Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) - American civil rights and anti-lynching activist, suffragette noted for her refusal to avoid media attention because she was African American
• Stasa Zajovic (1953 - ) - co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black, Belgrade, Serbia
• Abhijeet Sinha (1984 - ) Indian feminist, Social Activist, author, columnist and founder of ASSAR Asian Studies on Social & Administrative Reforms a Human Right Activist's Network

Images

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  Board of directors of "Jam'iat e nesvan e vatan-khah" (Society of Patriotic Women), a radical women's right association in Tehran (1923-1933)