Bertha Mkhize
South African teacher, trade unionist, anti-apartheid and women’s rights activist, who gained legal emancipation as a feme sole operating a business in her own right.
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Catherine Evans Whitener
Catherine Evans Whitener revived the handcraft technique of tufting in the 1890s near Dalton, Georgia.
Catherine Prime
Catherine Mary Prime was Australia’s first female actuary, becoming a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (IAA) in 1971.
Alma Carrie Cummings
Turn of the century American journalist
Eva Shipton
Eva Adeline Shipton was the founder of what has become known as Sydney Diagnostic Services, when she commenced her private pathology practice in Macquarie Street, Sydney in 1928.
Charlotte Riddell
1800s Irish novelist
Roberta Williams
Roberta Lynn Williams was one of the most influential personal-computer-game designers of the 1980s and 1990s, becoming known as the “Mother” and “Queen” of video adventure games.
Dr Angeline Achariya
Dr Angeline Achariya is an innovative leader in Australia’s agriculture and sustainable food industries.
Catherine Donnelly
Irish advertising copywriter, arts advocate and novelist
Emily Barnelia Woodward
Emily Woodward was a prominent female journalist in the early twentieth-century Southern US who became an outspoken advocate of liberal causes.