Edie Windsor was in her 80s when she sued the U.S. government. Her wife, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. The following year, Windsor received a $363,000 tax bill—estate taxes that, had the government recognized their marriage, would have been nonexistent.
German primatologist
Dr Lorna Sisely was only the second person in Australia to receive a fellowship for the Royal Australian College of Surgeons (FRACS).
Australian geneticist and the first woman to lead a New Zealand university.
Audrey Sherman was initially drawn to science by the appeal of “cooking polymers all day and driving a sports car,” but it was her personal drive and persistent inquisitiveness that paved her way to becoming 3M’s top female patent holder.
Australian dietician
In 1921 Gullett founded the New South Wales Association of Registered Medical Women. Within a year the Association had raised sufficient funds to establish the outpatient clinic that provided the basis for the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children which opened in 1925.
Irish speech therapist and voice coach
Australian physician and politician
Elizabeth Deane has been Professor of Biology and Head of the Division of Environment and Life Sciences in the College of Science and Technology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her research covers marsupial immunology and disease, with a particular interest in how the immune system develops and how young marsupials survive in the pouch.