Margot Taulé
Margot Taulé was the first woman registered as an architect and engineer in the Dominican Republic (1948).
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Aruna Sankaranarayanan
Computer scientist
Fatoumata Barry
Fatoumata Barry is considered the first professional woman architect in the Republic of Guinea.
Doris Mary Clark Núñez
Doris Mary Clark Núñez is considered the first Peruvian woman architect. She was also the first woman to study at the Escuela de Ingenieros del Perú (School of Engineering of Peru) in Lima, Peru (1924).
Mary Sherman Morgan
The only female engineer among 900 rocket scientists at North American Aviation in the early 1950s, she invented hydyne, the rocket fuel that successfully boosted America’s first satellite into orbit in 1958.
Julie Hammer
Julie Hammer joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in 1977, after completing a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Sydney. She was originally an education officer but transferred to the Engineer Branch in 1981. Hammer was the first woman to command an operational unit in the RAAF, the Electronic Warfare Squadron.
Elizabeth Coldicutt
Beth Coldicutt taught in the Faculties of Engineering and Architecture, University of Melbourne 1939-1979, beginning as a senior demonstrator and ending as a Reader.
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.
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.