Picks and Pans Review: Lessons from Nine Women

By MOIRA BAILEY, JONATHAN DURBIN, MICHELLE GREEN

UPDATED 02/27/2006 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 02/27/2006 at 01:00 AM EST

>• Ida Wells-Barnett, journalist

• Mother Jones, union organizer

• Alice Hamilton, workplace-safety pioneer

• Frances Perkins, FDR's Labor Secretary

• Virginia Durr, anti-segregationist

• Septima Clark, teacher

• Dolores Huerta, farm-worker organizer

• Helen Rodriguez-Trias, public health pioneer

• Gretchen Buchenholz, child-welfare activist