Adelina Otero-Warren
Adelina Otero-Warren, the first Hispanic woman to run for U.S. Congress and the first female superintendent of public schools in Santa Fe, was a leader in New Mexico’s woman’s suffrage movement.
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Charity Adams Earley
Educator, soldier, and psychologist, Charity Adams Earley paved the way for African American women in the military, in education, and in her community. Her most prominent role was leading the first African American women unit of the army on a tour of duty overseas during World War II.
Nellie Robinson
Dame Nellie Robinson, DC, MBE was a pioneer of education in Antigua who broke down class and colour barriers to help provide all children with access to education. She was the first woman to receive Antigua and Barbuda’s Order of the National Hero.
Pálné Veres
Pálné Veres was a Hungarian teacher and feminist who opened the first secondary school for women in Hungary in 1869 and founded the Hungarian National Association for Women’s Education.
Her school’s philosophy was that girls should be taught to be self-sufficient, and to learn to appreciate arts and culture while avoiding a tendency towards self-indulgence in luxury. Girls were to be taught to be direct representatives of God in their future married lives, and to embody Christian ideals in their behaviour. The school itself was divided into 11 grades: four in the elementary level, four at the intermediary level, and three in the superior level. The curriculum for the superior classes included Religious instruction; Hungarian Language; Hungarian Literature; Aesthetics; Pedagogy; Anthropology and Psychology; Logic; History of Civilization (partiularly as it related to women); Algebra and Geometry; German language; French language; Manual arts; Vocal and Instrumental Music; Gymnastics; Mathematics and Stereometry; Drawing.
Veres was disappointed at the high rate of departure of the students before the superior level, as the upper bourgeoisie and aristocratic parents of her students did not see a practical use for their daughters to advance beyond a certain age. The superior-level classes were seen as useful only for young women who intended to become school teachers themselves. Veres did succeed in influencing the upper bougeoisie and aristocracy attitudes, in acknowledging the benefits of education in general for children of both sexes.
Rapelang Rabana
Rapelang Rabana is a computer scientist, entrepreneur, and speaker who founded the learning technology company Rekindle Learning in 2013.
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková
Zdeňka Wiedermannová-Motyčková was a Moravian teacher, editor and women’s rights activist.
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Thérèse de Dillmont
In 1884 needleworker Thérèse de Dillmont left the embroidery school that she had started with her sister Franziska and moved to France, where she wrote her Encyclopedia of Needlework (1886).
Teréz Karacs
Teréz Karacs was a Hungarian writer, educator, memoirist and women’s rights activist.
Zelia N. Breaux
Zelia N. Breaux was an American music teacher and musician who played the trumpet, violin and piano who organized the first music department at Oklahoma’s Langston University, as well as the school’s first orchestra.