Senbon Matsubara warriors
DNA tests on 105 sets of human remains from the Battle of Senbon Matsubara in 1580 showed that 35—exactly one-third—of these Japanese warriors were female.
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Phum Snay warriors
Several women were buried in Phum Snay, Cambodia with metal swords and helmets between the 1st and 5th centuries CE, discovered in 2007.
Jang Gye-hyang
The oldest extant Korean cookbook, written circa 1670 by Lady Jang Gye-hyang, was passed down through generations of her descendants without it ever occurring to any of them that this held more significance than a family recipe book.
Li Qingzhao
Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao wrote in depth about how much she loved alcohol, which was widely deemed inappropriate for a woman, as was the fact that she dared to divorce a man who mistreated her.
Lu Wenyu
Chinese architect
Fang
Fang, who lived during the first century BCE, was the earliest recorded woman alchemist in China. She reputedly discovered a way to turn mercury into silver—one interpretation is that she used a chemical technique to extract silver from ores using mercury.
Tan Yunxian
One of China’s most famous women doctors, active in the 1400s and 1500s
Xiao Lu
Chinese performance and installation artist
Fumiko Yoshitada
Co-inventor of the rice cooker
Dr Manjula O’Connor
Award-winning Indian-Australian psychiatrist, clinician, and researcher.