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Lea Puymbroeck Miller

Professor Lea Puymbroeck Miller became a symbol of [the impact of anti-nepotism rules on women’s careers] in 1938.

Louise Bourgeois Boursier

Louise Bourgeois was renowned for her skill as a midwife, with patients including French royalty in the early 1600s.

Luz Amorocho

María Luz Amorocho Carreño was the first woman to earn a diploma in architecture in Colombia (1945), graduating from the School of Architecture at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá.

Dr Anna Perreira

Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Guyana in Georgetown, Guyana (2003–)

Hilda Taba

Estonian-American curriculum reformer

Dutch botanist and geneticist Jantina Tammes was one of only 11 women students at the University of Groningen in 1890, where she was allowed to attend lectures but not take exams, culminating in a teaching diploma rather than a degree in science. She went on to be the first professor of genetics in the Netherlands (of any gender).