Hester Maclean
She was largely responsible for drafting the Nurses and Midwives Registration Act 1925, which gave nurses a more direct role in nursing administration.
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Mary Isabel Lambie
Her innovation helped shape the future of New Zealand nursing.
Eva Gertrude Brooke
Eva Brooke was a quiet, serious-minded woman, a patriotic nurse respected by both her staff and the doctors with whom she worked during World War I.
Sarah Dougherty
Sarah Dougherty was typical of many women of her time. That this small, auburn-haired woman had great physical and mental strength is borne out by her survival to a great age. Self-taught, a ‘well-informed woman,’ extraordinarily independent, she endured hardship, risk and isolation.
Florence Marie Harsant
Temperance worker, nurse, community leader, writer
Doris Clifton Gordon
Throughout her career Doris Gordon had the welfare of mothers and children at heart. She believed her male colleagues in the Health Department did not know what they were talking about when they promoted natural childbirth and claimed that even stitches after a birth ‘do not hurt much’. She wanted the same facilities available for all women, and was convinced that the best services were doctor-controlled.
Constance Helen Frost
Constance Helen Frost remained on the staff at Auckland Hospital for nearly 17 years and until 1913 she was the only woman doctor.
Agnes Macready
Agnes Macready should be regarded as the first Australian woman war correspondent, although there was no official system at this time for accreditation.
Hildegard von Bingen
German abbess and mystic who organized a school of nurses for service in the hospitals; noted composer whose works are still performed today, as well as a brewer and herbalist who described using hops in beer.
Emily Siedeberg
Emily Siedeberg was a woman of strength and determination, who rarely gave up once she had set her mind on something. Courageous and dignified, she proved herself a model woman doctor for the period by using her professional skills in the traditional female sphere of community service.