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Jill Abramson

In 2011, when the newspaper industry was in crisis, Jill Abramson was the first woman named editor of The New York Times.

In the 1940s, Kathleen Antonelli, Betty Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances “Betty” Holberton, Marlyn Meltzer, Frances Spence, and Ruth Teitelbaum collaborated to program ENIAC, the world’s first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.

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.

Joanna Cohan Scherer

Joanna Cohan Scherer worked in the Smithsonian Institution’s anthropology archives for decades, starting in 1966.

Frances Herskovits

Anthropologist Frances Herskovits and her husband collaborated on their prolific output on African, Afro-Caribbean and African-American culture.

Jacqueline Felice de Almania

Jacoba Felicie was an Italian healer in 1300s France, at a time when restrictions were being placed on who could treat people.

Denise Scott Brown

Architect Denise Scott Brown, who won the Soane Medal in 2018 for the “global influence” of her work, was deliberately excluded when her husband won the Pritzker in 1991 for work that everyone knew they had collaborated on together.

Otti Berger

At the German art school Bauhaus, women like Anni Albers and Otti Berger were shunted into the textile department, prevented from studying other disciplines. Berger became one of the few Bauhaus artists to have her designs patented. Although segregated, artists like Albers and Berger changed the way textiles are viewed as an artistic medium.

Belle Moskowitz

Belle Moskowitz was a social reformer and political advisor so influential that, in her obituary, The New York Times called her the most powerful woman in U.S. politics.

Susan Sontag

American writer and critic