Catholic Archives - Infinite Women

Marta Bunge

Marta Bunge was an Argentine mathematician who worked most of her career at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. An expert in category theory, she was known for her work on synthetic differential topology and toposes.

Eulalia Callis

Despite her prominent position, she made private matters public in 1785 by openly accusing her husband, the Alta California governor, of infidelity and refusing to sleep with him; in addition, she insisted on returning to Mexico City.

Graciela Iturbide

She photographs Mexican society and culture. Between 1979 and 1988, she photographed a matriarchal society in Juchitán de Zaragoza, an indigenous town in southeast Oaxaca. She also photographed Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles.

Catherine Wolfe Donohue

One of the women who fought back after they suffered radium poisoning while painting luminous numbers on watch, clock, and instrument dials using radium-laced paint in factories in New Jersey, Illinois, and Connecticut.

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.

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.

Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann

Aboriginal Australian painter and educator

Alana Johnson

A founding member of Australian Women in Agriculture in 1993, she is recognized nationally and internationally for her work in Change Management, Leadership Training and Rural Development and was the 2010 Victorian Rural Women’s Award winner

Alice Meynell

Late-Victorian poet, journalist, and art critic.

Rosalie Gould

Rosalie Santine Gould lived near the Rohwer detention center in McGehee, Arkansas, and dedicated much of her time and efforts to preserving the story and the physical remains of the War Relocation Authority camp.