Mary W Gray
Mary Gray is an American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer. She has written on mathematics, education, computer science, statistics and academic freedom.
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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.
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.
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.
Nellie Euphemia Coad
Throughout her teaching career Nellie Coad was concerned about educational opportunities for women.
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.