Sara Akbar
Kuwaiti chemical petroleum engineer, and women’s rights campaigner who is considered a national hero for her role coordinating the firefighting to extinguish the 700 oilwell fires started by the Iraqi regime (1991).
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Dr Eugenia Kumacheva
Ukrainian-Canadian chemical engineer
Gillian Bowler
Irish businesswoman, chair of Fáilte Ireland, first chair of the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the first female chair of an Irish banking institution, the Irish Life & Permanent.
Amie G Steere Inman
Cleveland, Ohio art teacher
Peggy Leeson
1700s Irish sex worker, brothel-keeper, and memoirist
Máire Ní Thuathail
Irish businessperson and television producer
Noelle May Curtis Clery
Irish educational pioneer and entrepreneur
Cheryl Carolus
South African diplomat, businesswoman and human rights activist
Rena Dardis
Irish publisher
Myrtle Allen
Irish chef, food writer and hotelier