Kate Gleason
The USA’s first woman engineer, “Concrete Kate” Gleason, mechanical engineer and house builder.
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Adelaide Anderson
Although not an engineer by training and not the very first of the Lady Factory Inspectors, Dame Adelaide Anderson became one of the best known and had close connections with the Women’s Engineering Society at its outset in the final years of her own career.
Emily Warren Roebling
Completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after her engineer husband was incapacitated
Dr Daphne Jackson
Nuclear engineer and founder of the UK’s returner fellowships programme.
Jeanie Dicks
Jeanie Dicks was responsible for the first permanent electrification of Winchester Cathedral in 1934.
Florence Violet McKenzie
Australia’s first female electrical engineer, founder of a telegraphy school and initiator of the WRANS.
Victoria Drummond
The first woman ship’s engineer and role model for women at sea, who were not able to follow in her wake until 10 years after she retired.
Pilar Careaga
Maria del Pilar Careaga is considered to have been Spain’s first female industrial engineer, but she also went on to have a significant political career, using her position to advance women’s opportunities, including the first women in Bilbao’s police force.
Dorothée Pullinger
Aero and automobile engineer and entrepreneur.
Pearl Young
The first female professional hired by NASA’s predecessor, NACA, in an age when most women in the government were constrained to staffing support positions such as secretaries or administrative aides.