Mary Purcell
20th century Irish teacher, religious biographer and archivist
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Nombuso Mchunu
South African trade unionist
Paula Ensor
South African anti-apartheid activist and Dean of the Humanities Faculty at the University of Cape Town
Dr Belkis Valdman
Brazilian chemical engineer
Rebeca Uribe Bone
Colombia’s first female chemical engineer
Dr Philomena Kanwulia
Appointed professor in Chemical Engineering at Nnamdi Azikiwe University in 2006, she is thought to be the first woman to reach this level in Nigeria as well as the first female Dean of a Faculty of Engineering in Nigeria (2012).
Patricia Jobodwana
Jobodwana was the first and youngest Black woman to graduate from a South African university. She enrolled at Fort Hare University at the age of 14 for a BSc in medicine in 1955.
Florence Matilda Read
President of Spelman College from 1927 to 1953
Hannah Hoyt
Hannah Hoyt (1805-1871) was a teacher in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Judith Foster Saunders
Saunders and Beach Academy was an elite Boston school for girls founded by Judith Foster Saunders (1772-1841) and Clementina Beach (1774-1855).