Pauline Gower
Set up and commanded the women’s Air Transport Auxiliary in WWII
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Danielle Mitterrand
Danielle Mitterrand joined the French Resistance as a teenager during World War II, and would go on to serve as first lady from 21 May 1981 to 17 May 1995 when he later become president of France.
Évelyne Sullerot
Frech Resistance memebr who later co-founded Maternité Heureuse, an organisation to promote birth control, and developed what is believed to be the world’s the first women’s studies course in 1967 at Paris Nanterre University.
Françoise de Boissieu
French Resistance fighter in WWII
Isabel Townsend Pell
American socialite who joined the French Resistance during World War II — one of the few women who was part of the Maquis — purportedly due to her good aim.
Jean Taylor
Jean Taylor was generally described in her lifetime as an entomologist but, although that was the source of her expertise, perhaps today she might be considered to have been an applied biologist or bio-engineer.
Jeanne Berthomier
Jeanne Berthomier, who was a civil servant in the Ministry of Public Works in Paris, managed to deliver top-secret information typed on tissue paper to the Alliance chief, Marie Madeleine Fourcade.
Jeanne Chanton
As a member of the French Resistance, Jeanne Chanton was arrested and sent to a work camp in Germany during WWI.
Joan Lavender
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
Joan Curran
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.