Carrie Buck was the first person involuntarily sterilized under Virginia’s eugenics laws. In Buck v. Bell (1927), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Virginia’s law was constitutional and that Buck should be sterilized, the first of approximately 8,300 performed under state law between 1927 and 1972.
Rose Cecil O’Neill was a self-taught bohemian artist, who ascended through a male-dominated field to become a top illustrator and the first to build a merchandising empire from her work, with her invention of the Kewpie doll.
American suffragist and educator
During the First World War she replaced her brother as a director on the board of their father’s Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company and oversaw the recruitment and training of women war workers
Militant feminist and founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Electrical power supply pioneer and campaigner for women’s right to work at night.
Margaret Rowbotham was a mathematician, engineer and campaigner for the rights of women at work, and founder member of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
British-Australian suffrage campaigner and engineer