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Miriam Leslie

That a woman of such business ability, and with heavy responsibilities, should be at the same time a society leader, is a marvel of versatility.

Feminist, lawyer, social reformer and human rights activist Concepción Felix Roque founded one of the Philippines’s first women’s organisations, Asociación Feminista Filipina, and one of the first humanitarian organisations, La Gota de Leche, focused on the well-being of mothers and their children.

Mary Somerville

Mary Somerville wrote many works which influenced Maxwell. Her discussion of a hypothetical planet perturbing Uranus led Adams to his investigation. Somerville College in Oxford was named after her.

Chrystal Macmillan

Chrystal Macmillan was the first female science graduate at Edinburgh University and the first female honours graduate in Mathematics. She became active in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and went on to become a lawyer.

Frances Hardcastle

Frances Hardcastle was an English mathematician who held fellowships in the United States. She studied point groups and wrote some important works. She also was a major figure in the Women’s Suffrage movement and was secretary of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.

Belva Ann Lockwood

Belva Ann Lockwood (1830-1917) was an American lawyer and reformer.

Frances E Willard

Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) was an American educator, suffragist and temperance reformer.

Ellen Hayes

Ellen Hayes was an American mathematician and astronomer. She was one of the first female American professors.

Kate Milligan Edger

Kate Milligan Edger was the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree

Christina Kirk Henderson

Her mother’s mission work led Christina to take an active role in the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union of New Zealand. She served as secretary (1917–20) and president (1930–32), but her main contribution was her editorship, from 1923 until 1946, of Harvest Field, the union’s magazine.