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Beatrice Winser

Beatrice Winser (1869-1947) was the director of the Newark Public Library and the Newark Museum.

Helen Storrow (1865-1944) funded the Saturday Evening Girls at Boston’s North Bennet Street Industrial School, where young working-class Italian and Jewish immigrant girls were taught literacy skills, pottery, and other crafts in a culturally rich program.

Clara L Bickford

Cleveland musician, teacher, and collector who founded and served as the first president (1933-35) of the Women’s Committee of the Cleveland Institute of Music

Iris Lovett-Gardiner

Aunty Iris Lovett-Gardiner was a beloved Gunditjmara elder and leader in Aboriginal education.

Hyllus Maris

Aunty Hyllus Maris was a Wurundjeri, Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta activist, poet, scriptwriter and educator

Jennifer Seberry

Jennifer Roma Seberry is Professor and former Head, Department of Computer Science at the University of Wollongong.

Mollie Horadam

During World War II she worked at the Rolls-Royce factory, mathematically modelling the stress in aircraft engines, while undertaking an engineering from the University of London at night.

Eleanor Emily Chase

Eleanor Emily Chase was a Lecturer and Demonstrator in Zoology at the University of Sydney in the 1910s and 1920s

Fanny Cohen

Fanny Cohen was a first class scholar in geology and mathematics at the University of Sydney and went on to study at the University of Cambridge. She returned to Sydney and in 1929 became headmistress of Fort Street Girls’ High School.

Ellen Benham

In 1902 Benham was appointed as a botany lecturer at the University of Adelaide.