Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham
Margaret Rowbotham was a mathematician, engineer and campaigner for the rights of women at work, and founder member of the Women’s Engineering Society.
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Hermila Galindo
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Georgina Kermode
British-Australian suffrage campaigner and engineer
Camille du Gast
Daredevil sportswoman, animal rights activist and feminist in Belle Epoque Paris
Salome Merritt
1800s American physician, suffragist and lecturer who also played an important role in the civic life of Boston.
Grace Lorch
President of the Boston Teachers Union and the first teacher to appeal the rule that teachers must resign if they got married.
Susan Fessenden
Susan Fessenden (1840-1932) was a reformer and president of the Massachusetts WCTU, advocating for temperance, women’s suffrage, and assistance to the poor.
Susan Walker Fitzgerald
The first woman Democrat elected to the Massachusetts State Legislature. Having worked actively in the statewide suffrage campaign, she was elected in 1922 and served one term.
Suzanne Revaleon Green
Boston women teacher who successfully challenged the 1880s School Committee regulation that women resign upon marriage
Amanda Melvina Lougee
Suffragist and inventor who took over management of Clifton Manufacturing Company when her brother died