Eva Perón
Argentine activist and First Lady
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Frances Grimes
Frances Grimes was an artist best known for her marble portrait busts and delicate low relief sculptures.
Louise Campbell
English princess, sculptor, personal secretary to Queen Victoria, viceregal consort, and painter
Katherine Ross Queen
Scottish-Canadian socialist and feminist
Marian Farquharson
In 1885, Marian Farquharson was elected as the first female fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society—but as a woman she was still prohibited from actually attending any meetings or voting on society matters.
Emilie Kempin-Spyri
Emilie Kempin-Spyri became Switzerland’s first female law school graduate in 1887, but women were not allowed to practise law at the time because they lacked full citizenship.
Shannon Faulkner
Shannon Faulkner was seventeen when she applied to the American military college known as The Citadel. Knowing they only accepted males, she did not include her gender on her application and marked it out on her transcripts. Although she was accepted, the school reversed that decision upon finding out she was female. She sued for violation of her civil rights, as The Citadel was a public school that received state funding.
Dr Manjula O’Connor
Award-winning Indian-Australian psychiatrist, clinician, and researcher.
Maud Malone
Irish-American suffragist
Sylvie Shaw
In 1975, Mary Owen and Sylvie Shaw co-founded the Working Women’s Centre in Melbourne