Louisa Baker
Louisa Alice Baker was a prolific writer who described herself as ‘bred under the Southern Cross, held cheaply there – and labelled in London’.
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Dr Frances Arnold
Frances Arnold, PhD, is a biochemical engineer who pioneered how to harness evolution to create proteins, for which she received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018), becoming the first American woman to do so.
Juana Briones
1800s Mexican-American pioneer, businesswoman, healer, and landowner
Billie Barry
Irish performer and stage school founder
Abedo
When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Abedo was among the many who fought back.
Myrlie Evers–Williams
Civil rights activist
Tye Leung Schulze
Civil rights and community activist
Frances Perkins
American workers-rights advocate, first women in the US Cabinet, fourth US Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position.
Cecilia Cruz Bamba
Chamorro woman orphaned at the age of nine during the Japanese attacks on Guam in 1941. Motivated by the grandmother who raised her, Bamba became a senator, businesswoman, and community leader.
Dr Marie Equi
Doctor in the American West who provided care to working-class and poor patients, including birth control information and abortions at a time when both were illegal.