Kato Mikeladze

Ekaterine "Kato" Mikeladze (1878–1942) was a Georgian journalist and feminist who from 1916 fought for women's rights.

In order to encourage women to become politically active, she established The Inter-Partial League of Women backed by The Voice of Georgian Women, a newspaper she founded and edited, publishing articles on social and political issues.

In 1898, already a committed feminist, she responded to assertions of women's limited intelligence by commenting in the journal Kvali: "The [emancipation] movement will continue until the root causes are eradicated.

She went on to study in Moscow (1903) and in Brussels, graduating in Social and Political Sciences.

[1] In 2013 the Women's Fund in Georgia established the Kato Mikeladze Award to recognize the work of women's rights activists in the country.