Jeanette Berglind
Swedish founder of Tysta Skolan, a school for deaf/mute children
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Dorothy Maynor
Celebrated African-American soprano, concert singer, and founder of the Harlem School of the Arts.
Emanuella Carlbeck
Pioneering Swedish educator known for her work with students with intellectual disabilities. She founded the first institution for such students in Gothenburg in 1866, providing education and supportive home and asylum for patients.
Dorothea Erxleben
Germany’s first female doctor.
Eveline Cunnington
New Zealand women’s rights activist and social reformer
Junko Tabei
Renowned Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher.
Kei Okami
The first Japanese woman to earn a Western medicine degree, from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in the USA.
Mary Colum
Irish critic, editor, and teacher
Marjorie Chambers
New Zealand nursing pioneer
Hilda Rollett
New Zealand teacher, journalist and writer