Golde Bamber
Golde Bamber (1868–1951) led efforts to support Boston’s Jewish immigrant youth, founding the Hecht House, a vital community hub, in 1936.
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Beth Schultz
Beth’s involvement in the environment movement came through defence of Western Australia’s Karri forests against woodchipping. In 1975, she became the first secretary of the activist Campaign to Save Native Forests and soon afterwards, the Co-convenor of the more science-based South-West Forests Defence Foundation.
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild
Barbara Cherry Schwarzschild (1914-2008) worked at the Harvard Observatory from approximately 1935 to 1938.
Abby Williams May
American suffragist and educator
Adelia Field Johnston
American educator
Louise-Reine Audu
A fruit seller who was active in the French Revolution, including the Women’s March on Versailles and the storming of the Tuileries Palace. She was singled out to present her grievances to King Louis XVI along with a small delegation of other women.
Fanny Goldstein
As the first Jewish woman to become a branch librarian in Massachusetts, Fanny Goldstein (1895-1961) was also collector and bibliographer of Judaica for the Boston Public Library.
Jane Wadsworth
Statistician who applied her skills to data coming from a wide range of topics relating to medical research. She devoted the latter part of her life to combatting the AIDS epidemic by constructing and carrying out surveys to establish the pattern of HIV infection in Britain.
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
Danielle Mitterrand
Danielle Mitterrand joined the French Resistance as a teenager during World War II, and would go on to serve as first lady from 21 May 1981 to 17 May 1995 when he later become president of France.