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.
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Hermila Galindo
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Henrietta Bussell
The UK’s first female railway engineer
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
Catherine Wolfe Donohue
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.
Pauline Léon
Léon is most remembered for her militancy and enthusiasm for taking action (often violent) to defend the French Revolution against the tyranny of the monarchy.
Clara Luper
History teacher Clara Luper (1923–2011) and the NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma City that she advised initiated some of the first sit-ins in the civil rights movement, beginning in 1958.
Dolores Jiménez y Muro
Presidents Díaz and later Huerta often imprisoned Dolores Jiménez y Muro, a socialist and political activist from Aguascalientes, for her work on many leftist journals, including La Mujer Mexicana, where she was a member of the editorial staff.
Belle de Costa Greene
The first half of the 20th century saw Greene rise as a top expert in the rare book world as librarian and first director of the Morgan Library and Museum.