June Rose Nala
South African labor rights activist
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Ida Fiyo Mntwana
The first president of the African National Congress Women’s League in South Africa and a leader of many mass women’s demonstrations
Noemy Chaverra
Colombia’s first chemical engineer of African descent, graduating from the University of Antioquia in 1951
Anasuya Sarabhai
Indian activist for the rights of textile workers
Jean Carman
Jean Carman experimented with dyemaking from eucalypts and published Dyemaking with Eucalypts in 1978. She tested 240 species from all over Australia, documenting the colours produced in wool with different treatments.
Judith Marx Wieder
Cleveland, Ohio businesswoman
Dr Yun-Hao Feng
One of the earliest women in chemical engineering
Sophia Theresa Williams-de Bruyn
South African anti-apartheid activist
Emma Mashinini
South African trade unionist and writer
Ellen Bushell
Irish silk weaver, usher and political activist