When the Union United Methodist Church was located in Lower Roxbury in 1916, the Women’s Home Missionary Society, under the leadership of Hattie B. Cooper (1862–1949), provided services for the growing population of African Americans in that area.
Donated her townhouse to the Harriet Tubman Crusaders, an African-American branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Boston, as a residence for African-American women who were excluded from the city’s college dormitories and respectable rooming houses.
A local and national pioneer in the development of standards for childcare
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 edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
The UK’s first female railway engineer
Cam Nguyen has been a leading figure in ethnic community services in Australia for over thirty years.
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.
British-Australian suffrage campaigner and engineer
One of the women who fought back after they suffered radium poisoning while painting luminous numbers on watch, clock, and instrument dials using radium-laced paint in factories in New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut.