From gatherers to the nineteenth century: gatherers and goddesses-- Hypatia -- Hildegard -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Maria Mitchell -- Healers: Florence Nightingale -- Clara Barton -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Myra Adele Logan -- Antonia Coello Novello -- Margaret Sanger -- Physicists: Marie Curie -- Lise Meitner -- Dixie Lee Ray -- Chien Shiung Wu -- Researchers and inventors: Florence Sabin -- Gertrude Belle Elion -- Barbara McClintock -- Grace Murray Hopper -- Environmental changers: Rachel Carson -- Ellen Swallow Richards -- Alice Hamilton -- Joy Adamson -- Jane Goodall -- Understanding people: past, present and future: Mary Leakey -- Margaret Mead -- Karen Horney -- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross -- Expanding career choices: Sylvia Earle -- Sally Ride.
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