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.
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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.
Hilary Kahn
Pioneering software engineer who laid the basis for CAD for engineers of today.
Ray Strachey
Started out to be an engineer but spent most of her life campaigning for women’s rights.
Ilse Ter Meer
German mechanical engineer
Maria de Lourdes Ruivo da Silva de Matos Pintasilgo
Chemical engineer and Portuguese politician. She was the first and to date only woman to serve as Prime Minister of Portugal, albeit for only 100 days, in 1979.
Marjem Chatterton
Structural engineer and pioneer in the then newly-emerging nations of Israel and Zimbabwe, as well as an early female engineer in her field.
Lettice Curtis
Pioneering British commercial pilot and aeronautical engineer.