Helen Maybury Roe
Irish librarian and antiquary
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Katharine Coman
Influential American social activist and educator.
Nechama Leibowitz
In 1930, she earned her doctorate from the University of Marburg with her thesis on “Techniques in the Translations of German-Jewish Biblical Translations.” That same year, in 1930, she immigrated to Mandate Palestine. For the next twenty-five years, she taught at a religious Zionist teachers’ seminar.
Regina Jonas
Regina Jonas’s studies at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums led her to write a thesis titled “Can a Woman Be a Rabbi According to Halachic Sources?” Despite protests, she received her semicha on December 27, 1935.
María Isidra de Guzmán y de la Cerda
The first Spanish woman to earn a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Lin Ostrom
Nobel-winning American political scientist and economist.
Emilia Dilke
British author, art historian, feminist, and trade unionist.
Kaihau Te Rangikakapi Maikara Te Whāiti
Ngāti Kahungunu woman of mana
Jadwiga Szeptycka
Polish archeologist and ethnographer, writer and social activist
Anna Schwartz
American economist known for her significant contributions to the National Bureau of Economic Research in New York City and as a writer for The New York Times.