List of Women's International Democratic Federation people

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This is a list of people associated with the Women's International Democratic Federation , a women's rights organization established in 1945. ^[1]

Albania

• Liri Gega (1917–1956), communist activist, politician

Algeria

• Abassia Fodil (1918-1962), Muslim member of the Union of Algerian Women, communist ^{[2] [3]}
• Baya Jurquet (1920-2007), elected to the WIDF Executive Council in 1953 ^{[4] [5]}
• Alice Sportisse Gomez-Nadal (1909–1996), French-Algerian communist politician, WIDF council (1945)

Argentina

• Fanny Edelman (1911–2011), communist politician, WIDF vice president (1975)
• Ana Rosa Schlieper de Martínez Guerrero (1888–1964), feminist leader, philanthropist, WIDF council (1945)
• Cora Ratto de Sadosky (1912–1981), mathematician, women's rights activist, anti-fascist politician

Australia

• Freda Brown (1919–2009), political communist activist, feminist, WIDF president from 1974
• Jessie Street (1989–1970), diplomat, suffragist, founding member (1945)

Austria

• Eva Priester (1910–1982), writer, communist, WIDF Korea commission (1951)

Belgium

• Germaine Hannevart (1887–1977), pacifist, militant feminist, WIDF Korea commission (1951)

Brazil

• Márcia Campos (fl. 1970s), academic, women's rights advocate, WIDF president (2002) ^{[6] [7]}
• Brianca Fialdho, WDIF vice president (1953) ^[8]

Bulgaria

• Tsola Dragoycheva (1898–1993), communist politician, founding member (1945)
• Rada Todorova (1902–1967), communist politician, founding member (1945)

Canada

• Nora Rodd (1893–1994), peace activist, feminist, communist, Korea commission chair (1951)

Chile

• Margot Duhalde (1920–2018), pilot, WIDF council (1945)
• Irma Salas Silva (1903–1987), educator, women's rights advocate, WIDF council (1945)

China

• Cai Chang (1900–1990), politician, women's rights activist, WIDF vice president (1948), Korea commission vice chair (1951)
• Li Dequan (shown as Lee Teh Chu En or Li Teh Chuan, 1896–1972), WIDF Executive Council terms in 1948 and 1953. ^{[9] [10]}
• Liu Qingyang (1894–1977), communist activist, feminist ^[11]
• Deng Yingchao (1904–1992), communist, WIDF council 1948 and 1953. ^{[12] [13]}
• He Xiangning (1878–1972), revolutionary, feminist, painter, WIDF council (1948)

Croatia (Yugoslavia)

• Kata Pejnović (1899–1966), Croatian Serb feminist, politician, founding member (1945)

Cuba

• Vilma Espín (1930–2007), revolutionary feminist, WIDF vice president (1975)
• Edith García Buchaca (1916-2015), communist leader, WIDF council (1953) ^[14]
• Loló Soldevilla (1901–1971), visual artist, political activist, WIDF council (1945)

Czechoslovakia/Czechia

• Anežka Hodinová-Spurná (1896–1063), Czech communist politician, WIDF council (1945)
• Milada Horáková (1901–1950), Czech socialist politician, women's rights advocate, WIDF council (1945)

Denmark

• Ida Bachmann (1900–1995), librarian, feminist, active in USA, Korea commission vice chair (1951) ^[15]
• Kate Fleron (1909–2006), editor, writer, resistance fighter, observer on WIDF Korea commission (1951)

Egypt

• Inji Aflatoun (1924–1989), painter, Marxist activist, WIDF council (1945)
• Saiza Nabarawi (1897–1985), journalist, women's rights advocate, WIDF vice president (1953)

El Salvador

• Lorena Peña (born 1955), economist, former guerilla, WDIF president (2016)

Finland

• Sylvi-Kyllikki Kilpi (1899–1987), elected to the WIDF Executive Council in 1953 ^[16]
• Hertta Kuusinen (1904–1974), communist politician, WIDF president from 1967

France

• Éliane Brault (1896–1982), resistance militant, political socialist, feminist, WIDF council (1948)
• Cécile Brunschvicg (1877–1948), feminist politician, founding member (1945)
• Eugénie Cotton (1881–1967), scientist, socialist, women's rights advocate, first WIDF president (1945)
• Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (1912–1996), resistance member, photojournalist, communist politician, founding member (1945)
• Jeannette Vermeersch (1910–2001), communist politician, WIDF council (1945)

East Germany

• Edith Baumann (1909-1973), East German politician, served on the WIDF Executive Council from 1953. ^[17]
• Ilse Thiele (1920–2010), East German politician
• Lilly Wächter (1899–1989), socialist politician, women's rights activist, WIDF Korea commission (1951), WIDF vice president (1975)

Greece

• Aleka Papariga (born 1945), communist politician
• Dido Sotiriou (1909–2004), writer, anti-fascist, WIDF council (1945)

Hungary

• Erzsébet Metzker Vass (1915–1980), Speaker of the Hungarian Assembly, WIDF Executive Council member from 1951 to 1956. ^[18]

Iceland

• Laufey Valdimarsdóttir (1890–1945), women's rights activist, lawyer, WIDF council (1945)

India

• Aruna Asaf Ali (1909–1996), educator, independence activist, publisher, WIDF vice president (1975)
• Pushpamayee Bose, WIDF vice-president (1955), president of the National Federation of India Women (1954) ^{[19] [8]}
• Renu Chakravartty, elected as WIDF Executive Council member in 1953. ^[20]
• Vidya Munshi (1919–2014), communist politician, journalist, WIDF council (1945)
• Manikuntala Sen (c. 1911–1987), communist politician. WIDF council (1948)
• Irma Salas Silva (c. 1911–1987), communist activist

Indonesia

• Umi Sardjono (1923–2011), anti-fascist women's rights activist, WIDF executive board member

Iran

• Shahnaz Alami  [ fa ], promoted WIDF's idea for International Women's Year to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1972. ^{[21] : 63}
• Jamileh Sadighi (جمیله صدیقی, 1903-1983), elected to the WIDF Executive Council in 1953. ^{[22] [23] : 75–77}

Italy

• Gisella Floreanini (1906–1992), teacher, anti-fascist activist, politician, WIDF council (1945)
• Elena Gatti Caporaso (1918–1999), socialist politician, feminist, WIDF council (1948)
• Ada Gobetti (1902–1968), journalist, anti-fascist, WIDS council (1945)
• Angiola Minella (1920–1988), communist politician, WIDF secretary general (1955)
• Rita Montagnana (1895–1979), communist politician
• Teresa Noce (1900–1980), union leader, journalist, feminist, WIDF council (1948)
• Camilla Ravera (1889–1988), communist politician, feminist, WIDF council (1945)
• Maria Maddalena Rossi (1906–1996), anti-fascist communist politician, journalist, WIDF vice president (1955)

Japan

• Hiratsuka Raichō (1886–1971), WIDF vice president (1955)
• Fuki Kushida (1899–2001), peace and women's rights activist, WIDF vice president (1975)

Luxembourg

• Yvonne Useldinger (1921–2009), communist politician, WIDF council (1945)

Mongolia

• Sonomyn Udval (1921–1991), elected to the WIDF Executive Council in 1953. ^[24]
• Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa (1893–1962), revolutionary politician

Morocco

• Lucette Mazzella (1910–1987), teacher, delegate to WIDF founding conference in 1945 ^[25]

Netherlands

• Trees Sunito Heyligers (1915–2003), lawyer, translator, WIDF Korea commission (1951)

Nigeria

• Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti (1900–1978), educator. political campaigner, women's rights activist, WDIF vice president (1955)

North Korea

• Pak Chong-ae (born 1907), communist politician, WIDF council (1948)

Norway

• Kirsten Hansteen (1903–1974), editor, librarian, communist politician, WIDF council (1945)
• Mimi Sverdrup Lunden (1894–1955), writer, women's rights advocate, WIDF council (1948)

Poland

• Regina Fleszarowa (1888–1969), geographer, women's rights activist, WIDF council (1945)
• Eugenia Pragierowa (1888–1964), socialist activist, feminist, politician, WIDF council (1945)

Portugal

• Maria Luísa Costa Dias (1916–1976), physician, communist activist
• Maria Alda Nogueira (1923–1988), communist, feminist activist, WIDF council (1945)

Romania

• Constanța Crăciun (1814–2002), communist politician, educator, WIDF council (1948)
• Ana Pauker (1893–1960), communist politician, founding member (1945)

Soviet Union

• Nina Vasilyevna Popova (1908–1994), Soviet politician, women's rights advocate, chaired Soviet Women's Committee, founding member (1945) ^[26]
• Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937), cosmonaut, communist politician, WIDF vice president (1975)

Yugoslavia

• Mitra Mitrović (1912–2001), politician, feminist, writer, WIDF council (1945)

South Africa

• Kate Molale (1928–1980), political activist, women's rights advocate
• Florence Mophosho (1921–1985), anti-apartheid activist, feminist
• Lillian Ngoyi (1911–1980), anti-apartheid activist, unionist

Spain

• Teresa Andrés Zamora (1907–1946), communist militant, feminist, WIDF council (1945)
• Dolores Ibárruri (1895–1989), republican politician, communist, founding member (1945)
• Veneranda Manzano (1893–1992), republic political activist, WIDF council (1945)

Sudan

• Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim (1930–2017), writer, women's rights activist, socialist leader, WIDF president (1991)

Sweden

• Andrea Andreen (1888–1972), physician, pacifist, feminist, WIDF Council (1945)
• Valborg Svensson (1903–1983), communist politician, journalist, WIDF Council (1948, 1956) ^[8]
• Elisabeth Tamm (1880-1958), politician, elected to the WIDF Executive Council in 1953 ^[27]

United Kingdom

• Elizabeth Acland Allen (1901–1969), civil rights advocate, founding member of WIDF ^[28]
• Monica Felton (1906–1970), writer, feminist, social activist, WIDF Korea commission (1951)

United States

• Tsola Dragoycheva (1886–1952), writer, artist, social activist
• Muriel Draper (1886–1952), writer, artist, social activist, WIDF council (1945)
• Florence Eldridge (1901–1988), actress, WIDF council (1945)
• Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1890–1964), union leader, women's rights activist, feminist, WIDF council (1945)
• Vivian Carter Mason (1890–1982), women's rights advocate, WIDF council (1945)
• Betty Millard (1911–2010), artist, political activist, feminist
• Thelma Dale Perkins (1915–2014), African-American activist
• Gene Weltfish (1902–1980), anthropologist, social activist, WIDF council (1945)

Uruguay

• Julia Arévalo de Roche (1898–1985), politician, WIDF council (1945)

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