Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham
Margaret Rowbotham was a mathematician, engineer and campaigner for the rights of women at work, and founder member of the Women’s Engineering Society.
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Laura Willson
Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Estella Crosby
Beautician and community activist who formed the Boston unit of the Housewives League with Geneva Arrington and E. Alice Taylor.
Catherine Wolfe Donohue
One of the women who fought back after they suffered radium poisoning while painting luminous numbers on watch, clock, and instrument dials using radium-laced paint in factories in New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut.
Dolores Jiménez y Muro
Presidents Díaz and later Huerta often imprisoned Dolores Jiménez y Muro, a socialist and political activist from Aguascalientes, for her work on many leftist journals, including La Mujer Mexicana, where she was a member of the editorial staff.
Grace Lorch
President of the Boston Teachers Union and the first teacher to appeal the rule that teachers must resign if they got married.
Suzanne Revaleon Green
Boston women teacher who successfully challenged the 1880s School Committee regulation that women resign upon marriage
Adelaide Anderson
Although not an engineer by training and not the very first of the Lady Factory Inspectors, Dame Adelaide Anderson became one of the best known and had close connections with the Women’s Engineering Society at its outset in the final years of her own career.
Julia O’Connor
A successful and nonviolent strike of 8,000 women telephone operators in April 1919, led by Julia O’Connor, paralyzed telephone service in five New England states for six days.
Mary Morton Kehew
Mary Morton Kehew led the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union from 1892 until her death in 1919.