Rose O’Neill
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.
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Abby Williams May
American suffragist and educator
Rachel M Parsons
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
Katharine Parsons
Militant feminist and founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Laura Willson
Trades union activist, engineer and housebuilder, and a co-founder of the Women’s Engineering Society.
Margaret Partridge
Electrical power supply pioneer and campaigner for women’s right to work at night.
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.
Hermila Galindo
Hermila Galindo edited the feminist journal Mujer Moderna.
Georgina Kermode
British-Australian suffrage campaigner and engineer
Camille du Gast
Daredevil sportswoman, animal rights activist and feminist in Belle Epoque Paris