Claudia Sheinbaum
In 2024, Mexican politician and environmental engineer Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum became the first woman and first Jewish person elected president of Mexico, winning a landslide victory.
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Kimberly Bryant
Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code in 2011 to create pathways that she didn’t have in the 1970s, and that she didn’t see for her own daughter decades later.
Marie van Brittain Brown
She collaborated with her husband, an electronics technician, to design and create the first closed-circuit television security system, changing home security for generations to come.
Dr Christine Darden
In 1967, Christine Darden was added to the pool of ‘human computers’ who wrote complex programs and tediously crunched numbers for engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center. But Darden wanted to do more than process the data — she wanted to create it.
Margaret Pirrie
Viscountess Pirrie , public figure and philanthropist
Ethel Heinecke Bauer
American aerospace engineer
Sarah Guppy
In 1811 Sarah Guppy patented a method for making safe abutments for suspension bridges.
Winifred Pink
1920s British car racer and mechanic
Janetta Mary Ornsby
One of the seven founders of the Women’s Engineering Society in the UK
Dr Ekaterina Alekseevna Feoktistova
Soviet chemical engineer who was on the team which developed an explosive composition with a low detonation velocity for the Soviet atomic bomb project.