Lenora Fulani
In 1988 Fulani became the first woman and first African American to appear on the ballot in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. She won 225,000 votes, or 0.2% of the November 1988 total.
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Flora Hubbs
Flora Ross spent 25 years as matron of women patients in British Columbia’s Asylum for the Insane.
Mary Cover Jones
Mary Cover Jones was a well-known developmental psychologist specializing in child and adolescent development.
Dr Margaret Floy Washburn
Advocate for equal educational opportunities for women who became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a doctoral degree in psychology.
Leta Stetter Hollingworth
An early feminist and active member of the Women’s Suffrage Party, Leta Stetter Hollingworth is best known for her landmark contributions to the psychology of women and to education of the gifted, the latter culminating in two books, Gifted Children (1926) and Children Above IQ 180 (1942).
Eleanor Harris Rowland Wembridge
American psychologist and nationally known author on juvenile delinquency
Dr Marion Bills
American organizational and industrial psychologist
Chai Ling
Most noted for her leadership in the Tiananmen Square protests and her organizations that aid women and students, Chai Ling’s work has helped and inspired people all around the world.
Frances Rix Ames
South African neurologist, psychiatrist and human rights activist
Christine Costner Sizemore
Mental health advocate on whom the Three Faces of Eve, both a best-selling book and a major motion picture, is based