Katharine Parsons
Militant feminist and founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Militant feminist and founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Electrical power supply pioneer and campaigner for women’s right to work at night.
Margaret Rowbotham was a mathematician, engineer and campaigner for the rights of women at work, and founder member of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
British-Australian suffrage campaigner and engineer
Daredevil sportswoman, animal rights activist and feminist in Belle Epoque Paris
1800s American physician, suffragist and lecturer who also played an important role in the civic life of Boston.
President of the Boston Teachers Union and the first teacher to appeal the rule that teachers must resign if they got married.
Susan Fessenden (1840-1932) was a reformer and president of the Massachusetts WCTU, advocating for temperance, women’s suffrage, and assistance to the poor.