Reshma Saujani
With the help of Saujani’s program, Girls Who Code, the amount of girls in the technology field has drastically increased.
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Mabel Addis
American writer, teacher and the first video game writer who designed The Sumerian Game for the IBM 7090 in 1964, which inspired other kingdom management games
Savitribai Phule
Indian educator, social reformer, and poet, widely considered the first female teacher of modern India.
Paz Márquez-Benítez
Living amid the Philippines’ American colonial period, Paz Márquez-Benítez wrote her way into history as a prominent short-story author, educator, and editor.
Indira Goswami
Goswami pioneered feminist Assamese literature by raising awareness of issues faced by the marginalized.
Maria Ressa
Nobel-winning Filipina journalist and human rights activist
Matilde Hidalgo
Ecuadorian physician, poet, and activist, the first woman to exercise the right to vote in Latin America, and the first to receive a Doctorate in Medicine.
Na Hyesŏk
Korean activist, poet, journalist and painter
Dr Mazlan Othman
Malaysia’s first astrophysicist, pioneering the nation’s entry into space exploration.
Dr Emily Stowe
Suffragist and the first female physician to practice medicine in Canada