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Also Known As	equal rights

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women’s suffrage equal opportunity gender equality isonomia fair equal opportunity formal equal opportunity human rights applied ethics egalitarianism society kinship feminism ideology ritual authority property leisure sustainability womanism social issue

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Mary Frances Berry

American professor, writer, lawyer, and activist

Takahashi Hisako

Japanese economist and government official

Portrait of feminist novelist Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

English author