Jeanne Berthomier
Jeanne Berthomier, who was a civil servant in the Ministry of Public Works in Paris, managed to deliver top-secret information typed on tissue paper to the Alliance chief, Marie Madeleine Fourcade.
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Jeanne Chanton
As a member of the French Resistance, Jeanne Chanton was arrested and sent to a work camp in Germany during WWI.
Joan Lavender
British defence electronics engineer and CAD pioneer.
Joan Curran
Joan Strothers was a Welsh physicist-engineer who was the inventor of the UK form of the WW2 anti-radar measure known as ‘chaff’ or ‘window’.
Encarnación Mares de Cárdenas
Encarnación Mares de Cárdenas achieved a very high status in one of the rebel forces opposed to Victoriano Huerta. As a result of her excellent work at the Battle of Lampazo, Nuevo León, she was promoted from corporal to lieutenant.
Elizabeth Killick
Defence electronics engineer Betty Killick was also the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Joy Muntz
Pioneering engineer-pilot
Elsie Eleanor Verity
“The First Lady of the motor trade” in early to mid-20th century Britain
Eleanor Annie Lamson
The U.S. Naval Observatory hired Isabel M. Lewis and Eleanor A. Lamson long before women were even allowed to enroll at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Elisa Griensen
When she learned that the men of Parral were unwilling to fight Pershing’s troops in 1916, she assembled a group of women and children to meet Major Frank Tompkins and his soldiers at the city limits, forcing them to retreat