Kiyo Minijima
Japanese businesswoman and philanthropist
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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.
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.
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.
Sarah Ann Cripps
Sarah Cripps was called ‘the best loved woman from Wellington to Ahuriri’.
Elizabeth Sinclair
King Kamehameha IV of Hawaii sold Niihau Island to Eliza for US$10,000. Later she purchased land at Makaweli and Hanapepe, on the island of Kauai, and cultivated sugar cane.
Rona Marjory Hurley
Well able to hold her own in an industry dominated by men, and to move easily among differing sections of society, Rona was respected for her straight talking, for her abilities as a grower and buyer, and for her extensive knowledge of the tobacco industry as a whole.
Phryne
Phryne, an Athenian hetaira or courtesan, who flourished in the latter part of the fourth century B.C.
Godiva
Saxon lady of Coventry and naked activist for the poor.
Ethel Benjamin
Ethel Rebecca Benjamin was New Zealand’s first woman lawyer.