Columba Rivera

A teacher, poet, and playwright, she was also a professor at the National School of Medicine and the National School of Nursing. A polyglot, she founded the magazine La Mujer Mexicana and contributed to El Mundo Ilustrado.

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Martine Rothblatt

Her long list of accomplishments includes creating and commercializing satellite radio, founding a biotechnology company that seeks to provide an unlimited supply of transplantable organs, setting world records for electric flight and delving deep into the future of artificial intelligence with her work on digital immortality.

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Ethel Gray

Ethel Gray enlisted in the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), Australian Imperial Force, on 9 February 1915 as matron. Over the subsequent five years Gray was matron of several hospitals in England and France, returning to Australia in 1920.

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