Clara Immerwahr
The first woman in Germany to earn a PhD in chemistry
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Alma Mahler
Austrian composer
Gerda Taro
Before Gerda Taro became the first woman photojournalist to die while covering a war on the front lines, she worked with her lover Endre Friedmann. Together they collaborated on work attributed to “Robert Capa,” an American persona intended to protect European Jewish artists from increasing political tensions on the continent in the 1930s
Malvina Malinek
Malvina Malinek has advocated for the rights of women, in particular migrant and refugee women, at the local, national and international level in Australia.
Deena Kastor
Deena Kastor is a long-distance runner, an Olympic medalist for the marathon, holds American records in both the marathon and half-marathon, and is an eight-time national cross-country champion.
June Levine
20th century Irish feminist, journalist and author
Judy Sheindlin
Judy Blum Sheindlin is arguably the most famous judge of her time, yet most people wouldn’t know her last name, recognizing her only as “Judge Judy.”
Ruth Handler
Mattel co-founder Ruth Handler is best-known as the creator of the Barbie doll
Sallie Krawcheck
Sallie Krawcheck had worked in finance for over a decade, including holding c-suite leadership roles at major companies, when she co-founded Ellevest, a woman-focused investment platform, in 2014.
Wendy Freedman
Dr. Wendy Freedman was the lead author on the 2001 paper “Final Results from the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project to Measure the Hubble Constant;” Freedman and her team had calculated more precisely than ever before the rate at which the universe is expanding, or the Hubble constant.