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 A Woman Warrior: Sayaka Osakabe  (5)          Sayaka Osakabe is a prominent Japanese women's rights activist. Over the years Syaka has fought for women's equality in the workplace. Her main focus on women's rights issues was maternity and harassment in the workplace after childbirth. Sayaka's battle for women's rights started in 2013-2014. Working as a contracted magazine editor, Osakbe faced serious backlash from her boss when she fell pregnant. This workplace harassment was the first of other scenarios where her boss faulted her for being a mother. The harassment then spurred Osakbe on to fight for more maternity rights on a governmental level. (1)  (7) Her Fight         Osakabe's fight first started when she returned to her workplace after her first miscarriage. When Osakabe asked her boss for a lighter workload, to which her boss responded by asking her to put off, "babymaking" for two to three years. Similar instances ha...

 Kate Kelly       Who is Kate Kelly? Kate Kelly is a passionate advocate and activist who heavily believes in equality for all. Kelly graduated from American University Washington College of Law cum laude in 2012 with a JD. She received the Class of 2012 Peter M. Cicchino Award for Outstanding Advocacy in Public Interest.  Some of Kate's interests include: yoga, hiking, being outdoors, ethical fashion, wax-print fabric, traveling, and mid-century modern. She loves trying new vegetarian and international cuisine, and enjoys learning different languages.     What has Kate Kelly accomplished? In 2012, Kate helped design a conference in DC for LGBTQIA Mormons and allies. In 2013 she founded a grassroots organization that went worldwide to fight gender inequality with her organization, Ordain Women. Her work was noticed by 3 male Mormon leaders, who convicted her of apostasy and excommunicated her from the church in 2014. The reasoning for ex...