Olympe de Gouges

Marie Gouze, her real name, is considered one of the pioneers of French feminism but
wanted to be above all a humanist. Long ignored, we owe him the first declaration of the
rights of the
woman after the French Revolution and already at the time, as she did not have the right to
vote and refuse that her pairs are confined to the roles of housewives.

Lydia Becker

One of the great figures of

Suffragette movement across the Channel
A scientist by training, she opposed the
belief that there is a difference
biological intelligence between humans
and women by campaigning for a system
mixed education. In the late 1860s, she
joined the suffrage movement
women and notably created the Manchester
Women's Suffrage Committee and a newspaper
nationally distributed and covering his fight
and that of thousands of English women

Marie Brizard

It is his audacity that will bring

Marie Brizard in History. This nurse
Bordeaux would, according to legend, discovered by
chance the recipe for an elixir capable of curing all
the ailments. It is a slave, whom she has cared for, who
would have confided the secret to thank her. We
are in 1755, and at a time when women
are totally out of business, Marie
Brizard will decide to create his own company
liquors! By surrounding himself with a female circle, and
of her family, she founded an industry of
spirits that thrives and crosses the ages. For
many historians, she is the first woman
entrepreneur.

Hubertine Auclert

convinced feminist,
fiercely determined to change the
Napoleon's codes after his fall, she was one
of the few to take the bull by the horns in
referring to women's right to vote and not
only laws for equality. She thus creates the
society Le Suffrage des Femmes and presents its
ideas during major congresses but faces
an unresponsive audience. Far from stopping on
failures, she will go so far as to go on strike
taxes (believing that women, faults of
legal representation, should not be
taxable) and, in 1908, to break an urn in Paris
in municipal elections. She will show up
symbolically in the legislative elections two years later
late

Lv Bicheng

Far ahead of its time, this

Qing Dynasty official's daughter
in love with prose becomes the first woman
to hold the post of editor-in-chief of a
newspaper in 1904, the Dagongbao, in which she
publishes his poetry. In addition to adopting fashion
Western, she refused to marry and devoted her
youth to defend the emancipation of women,
fighting for their education and the right to vote.
Supported by a governor, she opens a school
reserved for women and becomes, at only 23
years, the first and youngest principal of a
school in his province.

Simone Veil

Impossible to talk about progress

women's rights without mentioning the one thanks to whom
the French have finally regained control over their
body by making abortion legal in 1975, and
despite sometimes violent opposition. 4 years older
later, she became the first female president of the
European Parliament. Feminist and humanist, she
is dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust, of which it
is a survivor, and in defense of the cause of
women all over the world.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Iconic woman for

American Women's Rights, Ruth Bader
Ginsburg is a Supreme Court justice and, from the top
85 years old, she seems tireless. During
her immense career, she will have questioned
many times American justice in the face of
patriarchy. The one we call Notorious RBG, in
reference to rapper The Notorious B.I.G., will have
inspired many women, championed
many causes for gender equality and
today forms an integral part of the landscape of the
American pop culture. And Judge Ginsburg is not
not ready to retire, quite the contrary
Even today she does not hesitate to take the
speech on feminist causes that
matter. From abortion to movement
#MeToo without forgetting its positions
against Donald Trump, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is
a woman engaged in her personal life
as in his professional life.

Mona Eltahaw

Modern figure of feminism,

this American-Egyptian journalist is an activist
particularly for the emancipation of women
Muslim. She published a book which did not
failed to cause controversy Scarves and Hymens:
Why the Middle East must make its revolution
sexual (Ed. Belfond) in which she evokes
this taboo subject and she denounces in particular the
conservatism of certain countries and ideals. "There
misogyny kills", she keeps repeating.

Sarojini Sahoo

Present for centuries in

India, feminism has experienced a tremendous rebound
since the tragic rape of a student in a
buses in New Delhi. This writer also has
a diploma
in law, deals with sexuality (which, for
her, is inseparable from feminism) on her blog
"Sense and Sensuality" as well as the place of
woman in patriarchal society,
particularly today when freedoms are
demoted.
Meaza Ashenafi

Pioneer in the defense of

women's rights in Ethiopia, she founded
Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association which offers
legal aid for women victims of
violence. One of the cases she will defend (a
teenage girl who killed the man who abducted her
to marry her and raped her) will inspire the sponsored film
by Angelina Jolie Difret but above all, will allow
to change the law by prohibiting these
traditional kidnappings and punishing
15 year rape. Today, she continues without
relent in its fight against violence,
forced marriages and for equality in his country.

For 14 years, she

fought in particular against sexual violence
and chaired a summit in London this year
worldwide to eradicate mass rape in the
country at war.