Activism Archives - Page 131 of 319

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

Danielle Mitterrand

Danielle Mitterrand joined the French Resistance as a teenager during World War II, and would go on to serve as first lady from 21 May 1981 to 17 May 1995 when he later become president of France.

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.

Isabel Martin Lewis

The U.S. Naval Observatory hired Isabel M. Lewis and Eleanor A. Lamson long before women were even allowed to enroll at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.

Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza

Juana Belén Gutiérrez wrote radical feminist literature against Catholicism, political corruption, and social injustices during the Porfiriato.

Joan Curran

Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.