Lucy Miller Mitchell
A local and national pioneer in the development of standards for childcare
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Dr Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead
In 1891, Dr. Hurd-Mead established the Evening Dispensary for Working Women and Girls, the first institution in Baltimore to employ women physicians.
Hermila Galindo
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Henrietta Bussell
The UK’s first female railway engineer
Cam Nguyen
Cam Nguyen has been a leading figure in ethnic community services in Australia for over thirty years.
Estella Crosby
Beautician and community activist who formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.
Geneva Arrington
Co-founder of the Boston unit of the Housewives League
Geraldine Pindell Trotter
Associate editor of The Guardian, a newspaper dedicated to civil rights.
Dr Frances Heywood
In the 1930s Frances started the research for which she is best known and which led to her PhD, on the characteristics of the tin-based alloys used in making typeface.
Georgina Kermode
British-Australian suffrage campaigner and engineer