Rita Stang was medical officer of schools in the Western Australian Public Health Department from 1925, and supervisor of infant health in Western Australia from 1929, until her retirement in 1955. She worked to improve hygiene and children’s diets and put many measures into place to assist families in isolated areas with mothercraft.
Gwladys Yvonne McKeon was a biologist with a passion for Australia’s marine environment.
Irish social reformer and writer
Roberta Lynn Williams was one of the most influential personal-computer-game designers of the 1980s and 1990s, becoming known as the “Mother” and “Queen” of video adventure games.
Estelle Thomson was a naturalist and botanical artist who became an expert on the birds of Queensland, Australia.
Hilda Gardner was a pioneer of laboratory medicine in Australia, with a particular interest in infections and infectious diseases.
Australian army matron-in-chief, army nurse and nurse educator.
Doris Officer was Clinical Assistant in Children’s Outpatients, Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne 1930-1947 and Medical Officer, Free Kindergarten Union of Victoria from 1941.
Hilda Kincaid was medical officer (child welfare) for the Melbourne City Council from 1927 until her retirement in 1952
Edna Shaw was a Matron at the Women’s Hospital in Crown Street Sydney from 1936 to 1952.