EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WHICH ARRANGED THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN IN THE 1888, WITH THE FOREIGN DELEGATES THERE PRESENT. (ELIZ. C. STANTON,

Longtime women’s rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, front row, fourth from left, sits with executive committee members from the International Council of Women during their first meeting in Washington, DC, 1988; Seated left to right: Alice Scotchard (England), Susan B. Anthony (United States), Isabella Bogelot (France), Elizabeth Cady Stanton (United States), Matilda Joslyn Gage (United States), and Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg (Finland). (Photo by Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)