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Shirley Williams (c) Elizabeth Laverick (her L) Rose Winslade (her R) Premala Sivaprakasapillai (next R) surrounded by some other (unfortunately unnamed) young women in late 1960s fashions #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Shirley Williams MP Minister of State 4 Education & Science launched #WomenInEngineering year, press conference @ Westminster Technical College w Elizabeth Laverick, Rose Winslade, Premala Sivaprakasapillai #OTD 5 Mar 1969 marking @wes1919.bsky.social Golden Jubilee en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%2...

Gladys Sandford in photo from drivers licence

Gladys Sandford #Australian #NewZealand pioneering driver & aviator #WWI ambulance driver 1925 1st woman in #NZ to earn pilot's licence. 1927 drove car 10k miles Sydney to Perth, Darwin, Adelaide & back. Sold cars & taught customers to drive. b. 4 Mar 1891 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_...

Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza in B&W head & shoulders photo c. 1920s #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Concepción Mendizábal Mendoza, 1st woman in #Mexico to earn #CivilEngineering degree. Studied @ Palacio de Minería engineering school graduated 1927 passed professional engineers exam 1930. Thesis was groundbreaking as illustrated with photos. b. #OTD 4 Mar 1893 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepc...

What a great idea. I shall pass that on - VP is a relative of a good friend and I’ve heard so many stories about her over the years I decided to do a bit of digging and wrote her a wiki page. Sounds like someone whose company I would have enjoyed immensely!

Valerie Pitt was one of the first professors @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social fought for 25 years for women's right to be ordained in CoE, but when right was granted, commented she didn't know why any woman would actually want to be a priest. Might be of interest to @garius.bsky.social ?

Valerie Pitt in 1960s sat at desk looking at book in her hands. #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #TinyJoys

Valerie Pitt (1925–99) professor of English literature, campaigner within Church of England for disestablishment & ordination of women. Had pithy turn of phrase: equated educational "outcomes theory" popular in e. 1980s with outflow of sewage. New #Wikipedia page. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie...

B&W drawing called "The weaker sex II" shows 4 attractive young white women with piled up hair observing a diminutive man through a magnifying glass; one woman is about to poke the man with a hat pin. By Charles Dana Gibson from 1903. #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #InternationalWomensDay #WomenInSTEM

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Her oral history at IWM is remarkably zen in how she describes the experience. Perhaps as a way of coping with it?

Florence Blenkiron sat on her bike at London send off for Sahara trip. #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Florence Blenkiron 1st woman to reach 100mph on motorcycle @ Brooklands race track. 1934-5 (w. Theresa Wallach) 1st people to cross Sahara by motorcycle & sidecar making return journey on her own. #WWII served with #ATS @wes1919.bsky.social member. d. #OTD 4 Mar 1991 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florenc...

Muriel Thompson in First Aid Nursing Yeomanry uniform #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Muriel Thompson racing & ambulance driver, suffragist. Helped found Brooklands Automobile Racing Club. 1908 won 1st ladies motor race. Chauffeur 4 WSPU drove Emmeline Pankhurst on 1909 national tour. #WWI driver/mechanic in 1st Aid Nursing Yeomanry d. #OTD 3 Mar 1939 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_...

Ira Richowski in middle age. #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenINSTEM

Ira Rischowski 1919 1st woman #electricalengineering student @ TUDarmstadt #Germany. 1936 #refugee to UK via #Prague escaping persecution after Nazi arrest, did domestic work b4 return to engineering. 1939 joined UK @wes1919.bsky.social Interned as enemy alien @ #Rushen camp #WWII bit.ly/2V5w4pE

Ira Richowski in middle age. #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenINSTEM

Ira Rischowski 1919 1st woman #electricalengineering student @ TUDarmstadt #Germany. 1936 #refugee to UK via #Prague escaping persecution after Nazi arrest, did domestic work b4 return to engineering. 1939 joined UK @wes1919.bsky.social Interned as enemy alien @ #Rushen camp #WWII bit.ly/2V5w4pE

Frances V. Spence in 1980s

Frances V. Spence (née Bilas) 1 of original women 'Computers' or programmers for #ENIAC the 1st electronic digital computer. Its computational development was led by team of 6 women. She is considered 1 of 1st computer programmers in world. b. #OTD 2 Mar 1922 #WHM26 bit.ly/37PgCnS #WomenInSTEM

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Louise Gray Young US astronomer researcher engineer, made spectroscopic analysis of planetary atmospheres of Earth Venus & Mars. 1958 BS, 1959 Masters in engineering @ UCLA Engineering science PhD @caltech.edu Worked @ NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. b. #OTD 4 Oct 1935 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_...

Marguarite Stocker in uniform

Marguerite EG Stocker apprentice engineer @ Galloway Engineering Co in #Tongland #Scotland which advertised professional training & was "a fine university for women engineers". Later Governor of HM Prison Askham Grange #Yorkshire 1959-67. b. #OTD 2 Mar 1901 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguer...

Yvonne Choquet at Berkeley, California (probably UC Berkeley) in 1974 #WomenInSTEM #EiffelTower

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat 1923–2025 French mathematical physicist worked on general relativity. Proof Einstein field equations can be expressed as well-posed initial-value problem = 1 of 13 milestones in general relativity. 1st woman elected to French Academy of Sciences en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_...

Talk and Book Launch- Featuring Dr Nina Baker OBE The untold story of female Merchant Navy seafarers who lost their lives to enemy action in the First and Second World Wars

My book launch @ Scottish Maritime Museum 7 March.
I know most friends on here are nowhere near the West of Scotland, but my talk will be recorded & on Youtube early next week.
If you can attend in person (so I am not talking to an empty room......), book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-and-b...

Pauline Gower in ATA uniform seated at Women's Engineering Society's 25th anniversary dinner in 1944

Pauline Gower British #Pilot #WWII founder & Commandant of women's arm of Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA. 1943 negotiated equal pay for all women staff, 1 of 1st egs in UK. B4 that ran air taxi service & toured to 200 towns with Air Circus w' #engineer Dorothy Spicer. d. #OTD 2 Mar 1947 bit.ly/2pnrGCE

Jackie Moggridge at young age in flying helmet and stripy jumper

Jackie Moggridge SA born UK pilot. @ 15 youngest SA woman pilot @ 17 1st woman in SA to parachute jump Moved to UK to train as commercial pilot #WWII flew 82 types of plane in #ATA 1st woman airline captain of scheduled passenger services b #OTD 1 Mar 1922 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_...

Eleanor Green Dawley Jones in B&W headshot photo, rocking her hoop earings

Eleanor Green Dawley Jones US mathematician. 1 of 1st African-American women to earn PhD in maths, @ Syracuse Uni. Consultant for development of college mathematics curriculums & speaker at events to encourage women & minorities to pursue careers in science & maths. d. #OTD 1 Mar 2021 bit.ly/3Ad32Jv

Thanks so much for both sources. 💐 I’ll get around to writing her a wiki page one of these days. 🤓

B&W watercolour sketch of Clotilde Catalán de Ocón as a young woman. hair in 2 plaits tied with bows

Clotilde Catalán de Ocón #Spanish #entomologist #poet known for study of lepidoptera 🦋 in Sierra de Albarracín. 1st Spanish woman to practice #entomology Wrote poems as La Hija del Cabriel. Sister Blanca Catalán de Ocón 1st Spanish female botanist b. #OTD 1 Mar 1863 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotild...

St David’s Day post box topper featuring crocheted and plastic daffodils, a red Welsh dragon, a crocheted flag of St David (yellow cross on black) and four Welsh flags 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 in the background against a white wall

#StDavidsDay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Remembering Elizabeth Annie Jones on #StDavid’sDay. She died aged 22 in Oct 1916 of TNT poisoning. She had worked at NEF Pembrey. Her mother Mary Anne Williams claimed compensation for her daughter's death.
Her name is on the local war memorial
#LestWeForget
#WomensHistory
womenandwar.wales

Engraving portrait of Madeleine Brès lateC19th #WomenInSTEM #EiffelTower

Madeleine Brès 1842–1921 #French doctor, 1st French woman to earn medical degree. Had to get husband's consent to study, French law made married women legal responsibility of husbands. 1875 defended thesis on breastfeeding. Specialised in pediatric medicine & hygiene en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelei...

Engraving portrait of Madeleine Brès lateC19th #WomenInSTEM #EiffelTower

Madeleine Brès 1842–1921 #French doctor, 1st French woman to earn medical degree. Had to get husband's consent to study, French law made married women legal responsibility of husbands. 1875 defended thesis on breastfeeding. Specialised in pediatric medicine & hygiene en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelei...

Emily Roebling in later C19th clothing in right picture. Brooklyn Bridge opening on right

Emily Warren Roebling project managed the decade long completion of the #BrooklynBridge after her husband, chief engineer on the construction project, developed caisson (compression) disease. d. #OTD 28 Feb 1903 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_W...

Althea Lapper in 1926

1929 #TheWomanEngineer reported "Miss Althea Lepper [Revere] has a highly technical job with the Consolidated Gas Company of New York. She is an engineer & tests all new gas appliances". Pioneer of Electron Microscopy & assoc. professor d #OTD 27 Feb 1987 wikitree.com/wiki/Lepper-...

Elsie Louisa Winterton in B&W headshot in oval frame

Elsie Louisa Winterton draughtswoman for Great Western Railway in #WWI retained job post war, sign she was very good. Won prizes @ Uni of Reading in 1920s. 1st woman member of UK's Institution of Railway Signal Engineers @irseglobal.bsky.social in 1923 b #OTD 27 Feb 1897 bit.ly/3l7acWo #WomenInSTEM

Maryse Bastié in flyin gear leaning on plane holding a little dog

Maryse Bastié French aviator Married #WWI pilot, learned to fly, flew aerobatics to earn money after he died, 1927 bought own plane. 1930s set international records for female aviators, set up flying school. Captain in French Air Force. b. #OTD 27 Feb 1898 bit.ly/3OI5vQW