Joan Penridge
Australian nursing educator
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Judith Parker
As one of very few PhD-prepared nurses working in higher education in nursing in Australia in the early 1980s, she was well positioned to play a leading role in the transfer of nursing education from hospitals to higher education.
Dr Lorna Lloyd-Green
Lorna Lloyd-Green was one of the first female obstetricians and gynaecologists working in Melbourne, Australia in the first half of the twentieth century.
Dr Una Shergold
Australian pioneer in women and children’s health
Beulah Bewley
Irish epidemiologist
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.