Guadalupe Ibarra
Guadalupe Ibarra was the first Ecuadorian woman to hold a diploma in architecture (1970).
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Joanna Cohan Scherer
Joanna Cohan Scherer worked in the Smithsonian Institution’s anthropology archives for decades, starting in 1966.
Florence Deeks
Canadian writer and teacher who sued Macmillan and H. G. Wells for stealing her work
Hilda Taba
Estonian-American curriculum reformer
Dr Evelyn M Simpson
Literary critic Dr. Evelyn M. Simpson, the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University, was forced to resign from her academic position at her alma mater when she married in 1921, though she continued her own independent research.
Mónica Ponce de León
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Mónica Ponce de León is the first woman and first Latin American to serve as dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey (2016-2025).
Denise Scott Brown
Architect Denise Scott Brown, who won the Soane Medal in 2018 for the “global influence” of her work, was deliberately excluded when her husband won the Pritzker in 1991 for work that everyone knew they had collaborated on together.
Clementina Díaz y de Ovando
Mexican literary researcher and academic
Mercedes Díaz Roig
Spanish-Mexican folklorist
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
Egyptologist who spearheaded an international campaign to save 22 Nubian monuments in Egypt and Sudan, which would have been submerged by the lake created as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam.