Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
With just two employees, a master brewer’s certificate, and her father’s blessing, Mazumdar-Shaw began a business specializing in industrial enzymes for food and textile makers that now reaches around the globe.
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Uma Chowdhury
An ambitious teenaged Uma Chowdhry (1947–2024) left her home in India to study physics and engineering in the United States. But after falling in love with chemistry, particularly materials science, the study of solids at the molecular level, Chowdhry decided to work in industrial research.
Dr Margaret Chung
Dr. Margaret “Mom” Chung was the first Chinese American woman to become a physician. She founded one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1920s. During World War II, she and her widespread network of “adopted sons,” most of them American soldiers, sailors, and airmen who called her “Mom,” became famous.
Zhangsun
Esteemed Chinese empress who dedicated her life to serving as a stabilizing force and wise advisor within the imperial court.
Shikishi Naishinnō
Japanese classical poet of the late Heian and early Kamakura periods
Sarojini Naidu
Indian poet and political activist
Kono Yasui
Japanese biologist and cytologist (scientist who studies cells) Kono Yasui became the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science in 1927.
Putri Sri Alam
In 1641, Putri Sri Alam, after the death of her husband, ascended the throne of the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalamand (modern-day Indonesian province of Aceh) and took the title Sulṭāna Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah.
Zeb-un-Nissa
Mughal princess and poet
Matilda Lo Keong
Matilda Kum, also named Cum Hong, was the first identified Chinese female immigrant to New Zealand, where she raised the first known family of entirely Chinese descent.