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.
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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.
Ethel Emma McMillan
Ethel McMillan was a tireless promoter of her adopted city of Dunedin and helped to pave the way for the increasing numbers of women who were to enter local and national politics from the 1970s.
Marie Mildred Clay
Marie Clay was an influential literacy researcher and educationalist whose pioneering Reading Recovery programme changed the experience of learning to read for many children in many countries.
Muriel Carrick Moody
Muriel Moody’s reputation rests primarily on her ceramic sculptures and some bronzes cast in the 1980s. Her work was original and distinctive, usually based on the human figure.
Kate Milligan Edger
Kate Milligan Edger was the first woman in New Zealand to gain a university degree
Frances Jane Ross
Frances Ross is remembered as a pioneer in women’s education and an outstanding teacher who combined knowledge and dignity with a sense of fun.
Helen Connon
Helen Connon played a pioneering role in the education of New Zealand women.