Gertude Tuckwell
The first woman to appear in the list of teachers in the London School of Economics Calendar is Gertrude Tuckwell in the School’s second year.
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Beatrice Webb
One of the four founders of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Kitty O’Doherty
Irish nationalist
Ellen Forrester
Irish nationalist and poet
Inez McCormack
Irish human rights activist and trade unionist
Josephine Ryan
Irish teacher and political activist
Josie Airey
Irish legal-aid campaigner
Mary E Garrett
American philanthropist who donated money to start the Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1893 on the condition that the school would accept women students “on the same terms as men”.
Soraya Tarzi
Queen Soraya Tarzi of Afghanistan pushed to modernise the country from the 1920s onward, promoting freedoms and rights for women.
Aïssata Kane
Mauritian political Aïssata Touré Kane served as the country’s first female government minister as part of President Moktar Ould Daddah’s cabinet from 1975 to 1978, when the government was overthrown by a military coup.