Joan Rosanove
Joan Rosanove battled prejudice against women in the Australian legal profession, and represented women who otherwise wouldn’t have had access to representation.
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Frances Gillam Holden
Frances Holden was Lady Superintendent of the Hospital for Sick Children, Sydney from 1880 to 1887, during which time she published works on medicine and nursing training as well as verse and prose.
Yona Owens
Petty Officer 3rd Class Yona Owens was instrumental in securing the right for women to serve aboard US Navy ships.
Dr Gertrude Kelly
Irish surgeon and political activist
Rosaleen Mills
1900s Irish activist and educator
Margaret Tobin Brown
The “unsinkable Molly Brown,” philanthropist, suffragist and Titanic survivor
Phoebe Couzins
The first femal U.S. Marshal
Dr Jane E Hodgson
1970: Dr. Jane Hodgson was the first doctor convicted of performing an abortion in a hospital, when she challenged Minnesota law (Hodgson v. Minnesota).
Dr Katharine Maguire
Dr Katharine Marian Neril Maguire (1863-1931) was Ireland’s first female Paediatrician and a prize winning biology and medical student, who was primarily interested in social medicine.
Martha Griffiths
Known as the “Mother of the ERA,” Martha Wright Griffiths, a peppery and quick-witted Detroit Representative, was a key figure in bringing women’s rights legislation to successful passage in Congress.