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Esther Josefina Ayuso

Esther Josefina Ayuso is considered the first professional woman architect in Belize.

Alice Sankey Ellington was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement in Arkansas, an officer of the Southern States Woman Suffrage Association, a war worker during World War I, and a frequent campaigner for suffrage across the country.

Adolphine Fletcher Terry

Adolphine Fletcher Terry was a civic-minded woman from a prominent Little Rock, Arkansas family who used her position to improve schools and libraries, start a juvenile court system, provide affordable housing, promote the education of women and women’s rights, and challenge the racism of the Old South.

Esther Lape

Lesbian journalist who was part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s inner circle

Hana El-Hebshi

Libyan architect

Shamila Kohestani

Afghan-American football player and activist

Lea Puymbroeck Miller

Professor Lea Puymbroeck Miller became a symbol of [the impact of anti-nepotism rules on women’s careers] in 1938.

Lynn Povich

In 1970, 60 women employees of Newsweek sued the magazine. Female researchers accused male writers and editors of taking credit for their work, including Lynn Povich, who later wrote a book about the experience, Good Girls Revolt.

Joanna Cohan Scherer

Joanna Cohan Scherer worked in the Smithsonian Institution’s anthropology archives for decades, starting in 1966.

Helen B Feeney

In 1979, Helen B. Feeney sued the Personnel Administrator of Massachusetts due to employment discrimination.