Im Yunjidang was a Korean writer and neo-Confucian philosopher from the Joseon period. She defended the right for a woman to become a Confucian master and argued that men and women did not differ in their human nature by interpretations of Confucian values in moral self-cultivation and human nature.

Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein, commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a prominent woman of letters and political theorist in both Parisian and Genevan intellectual circles.