Fanny Goldstein
As the first Jewish woman to become a branch librarian in Massachusetts, Fanny Goldstein (1895-1961) was also collector and bibliographer of Judaica for the Boston Public Library.
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Jane Wadsworth
Statistician who applied her skills to data coming from a wide range of topics relating to medical research. She devoted the latter part of her life to combatting the AIDS epidemic by constructing and carrying out surveys to establish the pattern of HIV infection in Britain.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.