Beulah Bewley
Irish epidemiologist
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Merit-Ptah
Merit-Ptah is not only the first female doctor known by name but the first woman mentioned in the study of science.
Peseshet
Peseshet (c. 2500 BCE) was known as ‘Lady Overseer of Female Physicians’ and may have been associated with the temple-school at Sais.
Anyte of Tegea
Anyte of Tegea (l. 3rd century BCE) was one of the female poets listed by Antipater of Thessalonica as one of the Nine Earthly Muses (with others such as Sappho of Lesbos and Telesilla of Argos).
Malvina Malinek
Malvina Malinek has advocated for the rights of women, in particular migrant and refugee women, at the local, national and international level in Australia.
Dr Joan Refshauge
Joan Refshauge was an Australian medical practitioner and leader in the field of public health.
Joyce Whitworth
Joyce Whitworth trained as a nurse at the Royal Alexandria Hospital, New South Wales. She worked in administration positions, before enlisting in the Australian Women’s Army Service (AWAS) in 1941. Whitworth was made commanding officer of recruit training in the AWAS in 1943, a position she occupied until June 1946.
Joan Savage
Joan Savage worked in private dental practice in 1936, before becoming the director of dental health education at the Australian Dental Association, New South Wales Branch in 1937.
Dr Margaret Schlink
Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist
Lilian Marguerite Medland
Lilian Medland trained and worked for many years as a nurse in England and illustrated The Birds of the British Isles between 1906 and 1911, among other books.