Lynn Povich
In 1970, 60 women employees of Newsweek sued the magazine. Female researchers accused male writers and editors of taking credit for their work, including Lynn Povich, who later wrote a book about the experience, Good Girls Revolt.
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Jeanne Dumée
In her 1680 manuscript on Copernican and Galilean theories, astronomer Jeanne Dumée included an apology for writing on a subject considered “too delicate work for persons of her sex.”
Jenny Marx
A dedicated socialist, she gave up life as a baroness to work for the future she believed in. An advocate for women’s rights from a young age, she was never afraid to point out that even the socialists generally placed men’s needs above women’s, if they even considered women at all.
Joanna Cohan Scherer
Joanna Cohan Scherer worked in the Smithsonian Institution’s anthropology archives for decades, starting in 1966.
Judith Jones
This editor not only rescued The Diary of Anne Frank from the reject pile, she was also a champion for Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
Florence Deeks
Canadian writer and teacher who sued Macmillan and H. G. Wells for stealing her work
Hilda Matheson
The BBC’s first director of talks, who helped to establish radio journalism
Hilda Taba
Estonian-American curriculum reformer
Isabella Beeton
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management sold over 2 million copies internationally, outsold at the time only by the Bible.
Dr Evelyn M Simpson
Literary critic Dr. Evelyn M. Simpson, the first woman to receive a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University, was forced to resign from her academic position at her alma mater when she married in 1921, though she continued her own independent research.