Elsie Cassels
Scottish-Canadian naturalist, farmer, and office holder
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Ella G Agnew
Ella G. Agnew was a prominent American educator and social worker who advanced employment opportunities for women early in the 1900s
Dr Eva Eden
Australian educator in the field of veterinary science, agricultural science and pharmacy.
Nokukhanya Luthuli
Although she never became as public a figure as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and made a considerable contribution to her community and South Africa’s liberation struggle as a whole.
Melchora Aquino
Filipina revolutionary widely recognized throughout the Philippines as a national hero
Joan Burke
Irish nurse, politician and farmer
Nellie Peters Black
Georgia (U.S.) clubwoman
Dr Angeline Achariya
Dr Angeline Achariya is an innovative leader in Australia’s agriculture and sustainable food industries.
Dr Peggy Ozais-Akins
Peggy Ozais-Akins, a professor of horticulture at UGA’s Coastal Plain Experiment Station, developed a system to make a transgenic pearl millet cell that can be quickly improved using genetic-engineering techniques and then coaxed to grow into a full, fertile plant.
Naomi Chapman Woodroof
Naomi Chapman Woodroof was the first woman student and first woman graduate of the University of Idaho College of Agriculture, and one of the first two women in the United States to hold a degree in agriculture. She was the first woman scientist at the Georgia Experiment Station and the first state-employed plant pathologist at the Coastal Plain Experiment Station (later University of Georgia Tifton campus).