Kato Mikeladze
18 September 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. Thanks to her efforts, in 1919 five women were among the elected members of Georgia's parliament following the country's first democratic election.
Also recorded as Ekaterine Mikeladze
Kato Mikeladze

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- Name
- Kato Mikeladze
- Birth Name
- Ekaterine Mikeladze
- Born
- 18 September 1878
- Birthplace
- Kutaisi, Russian Empire (now Georgia)
- Died
- 1942
- Place of death
- Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
- Education
- Free University of Brussels
- Occupation
- Journalist, writer, feminist activist
- Known for
- Pioneer of the women's rights movement in Georgia
- Movement
- Feminism, women's suffrage movement Ekaterine "Kato" Mikeladze (
- Nationality
- Georgia
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18 September 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. Thanks to her efforts, in 1919 five women were among the elected members of Georgia's parliament following the country's first democratic election.
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Kato Mikeladze (1878–1942) was an activist, journalist and opinion journalist, among other activities, a national of Georgia. The activist was born in Kulashi. Kato Mikeladze was also known as ხ. Kato Mikeladze was a member of Writers Union of Georgia and worked in Tskhinval.
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• Name — Kato Mikeladze • Native Name — ეკატერინე მიქელაძე • Birth Name — Ekaterine Mikeladze • Born — 18 September 1878 • Birthplace — Kutaisi, Russian Empire (now Georgia) • Died — 1942 • Place of death — Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union • Education — Free University of Brussels • Occupation — Journalist, writer, feminist activist • Known for — Pioneer of the women's rights movement in Georgia • Movement — Feminism, women's suffrage movement Ekaterine "Kato" Mikeladze (
Biography
Biography
Born in 1878 in Kutaisi, Mikeladze completed her school education at the city's St. Nino School. 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. Science shows the causes of economic and political inequality do not result from inequality in ability or intelligence." She went on to study in Moscow (1903) and in Brussels, graduating in Social and Political Sciences. She then spent several years in Paris where she followed developments in women's involvement in politics, including the activities of the British National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies and Women's Social and Political Union. Back in Kutaisi in 1916, she strove to improve women's participation in politics by establishing the Inter-Partial League of Women and The Voice of Georgian Women, a newspaper promoting the social and political views of women from Georgia and elsewhere in Europe.
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Kato Mikeladze is recorded with the occupation women's rights activist. Recorded with the occupation opinion journalist. Recorded as writer, journalist, activist and poet.

Georgian feminist and women's rights advocate Kato Mikeladze, Paris, 1909
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1878
Kato Mikeladze was born on 18 September 1878.
1942
Kato Mikeladze died in 1942.
Legacy
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.
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- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Kato Mikeladze - Founders of the Feminist Movement in the USA and Georgia, enadakultura, 2024
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- “Kato Mikeladze”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- 1.Barkaia, Maia. Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus. Berghahn Books. 28–. 2017. 978-1-78533-676-8.
- 2.GenderMediator. Kato Mikeladze - Journalist, public figure.
- 3.Recognizing the work of a women's human rights defender with the Kato Mikeladze Award United Nations in Georgia. georgia.un.org. September 2025.
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