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Romana Acosta Bañuelos

In 1970 President Richard Nixon picked Romana Acosta Bañuelos to the post of U.S. Treasurer, the first Latina in the position in U.S. history.

Mary Draper ran a family tavern and supported Continental Army soldiers during the American Revolutionary War by making clothes and bullets from her linens and pewter. She also fed soldiers at her home.

Mary H Israel

American scholar and lecturer in Chinese and Asian studies.

Julia Austin

Co-founder of the Tyne Bank Brewery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Clara Robbins

Chemical engineer and distiller

María Morton

Trained as a chemical engineer at the former Tacuba National School of Sciences (ENCQ), now UNAM’s Faculty of Chemistry, graduating in 1926, she went on to work was in the food industries

Meghan Ireland

Chemical engineer Meghan Ireland is Chief Blender at the WhistlePig distillery in New England, managing the whiskey from barrel to bottle.

Dr Mary Davidson Cameron

Believed to have been New Zealand/Aotearoa’s first female engineering academic. She later helped set up the Food Technology Research Centre, an academia/industry knowledge exchange centre.

Maura Laverty

Irish author and broadcaster

Rebeca Uribe Bone

Colombia’s first female chemical engineer