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Mary White Ovington

Mary White Ovington (1865–1951), a social worker and freelance writer, was a principal NAACP founder and officer for almost forty years.

Rose Cecil O’Neill was a self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.

Abby Williams May

American suffragist and educator

Rachel M Parsons

During the First World War she replaced her brother as a director on the board of their father’s Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company and oversaw the recruitment and training of women war workers

Katharine Parsons

Militant feminist and founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.

Laura Willson

Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.

Margaret Partridge

Electrical power supply pioneer and campaigner for women’s right to work at night.

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.