Victoria Drummond
The first woman ship’s engineer and role model for women at sea, who were not able to follow in her wake until 10 years after she retired.
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Pilar Careaga
Maria del Pilar Careaga is considered to have been Spain’s first female industrial engineer, but she also went on to have a significant political career, using her position to advance women’s opportunities, including the first women in Bilbao’s police force.
Dorothée Pullinger
Aero and automobile engineer and entrepreneur.
Ilse Ter Meer
German mechanical engineer
Maria de Lourdes Ruivo da Silva de Matos Pintasilgo
Chemical engineer and Portuguese politician. She was the first and to date only woman to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal, albeit for only 100 days, in 1979.
Marjem Chatterton
Structural engineer and pioneer in the then newly-emerging nations of Israel and Zimbabwe, as well as an early female engineer in her field.
Lettice Curtis
Pioneering British commercial pilot and aeronautical engineer.
Rita De Morais Sarmento
Rita de Morais Sarmento was the first woman in Europe to obtain an engineering degree and professional certification, in 1894
Sabiha Gürayman
Turkey’s first woman engineer
Alice Tredwell
Railway contractor