Hedwig Dransfeld
German writer and activist
German writer and activist
Spanish writer and novelist
Chilean poet
Early Chinese film producer, editor and director
The 1916 Motion Picture News Studio Directory credits Los Angeles native Ida May Park with twelve years of stage experience as a “leading woman in support of well-known stars” and with screen experience at Pathé and the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, where she was then employed as a scenario writer.
Early film director, editor and writer
Finnish author and women’s rights activist
American author, and journalist, better known as Jennie June
Ursula Kathleen Hicks was the first woman editor of a major journal, The Review of Economic Studies.
Edith Abbott, an economist, social worker and women’s equality campaigner, was the first American woman to be appointed the dean of a graduate school in the United States.