52 Inspiring Women

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Of the 1,960,452 biographical articles on the English Wikipedia in September 2023, only 385,236 or 19.65% were about women. The biographies that do exist are considerably more likely to be nominated for deletion than existing articles of men. After issuing students an assignment to write about an inspiring innovator and 90% of the class writing about a man, Abi committed to 52 posts about inspiring women through 2024..

 

Hypatia 

Florence Nightingale 

Madam C J Walker 

Ada Lovelace 

Jennifer Doudna

Sunita Narain

Stephanie Kwolek

Jessica Watkins

Safia Nobel 

Katherine Johnson

Anita Roddick

Hedy Lamarr

Marie Curie

Jane Goodall 

Mary Sommerville

Beatrice Shilling

Charlotte Auerbach

Sophia Jex-Blake

Maria Gordon

Mary Anne Wilkes

Betty Beecroft

Flora Sandes

Marion Grey 

Sarah Goode

Maggie Lena Walker

Marie Van Brittan Brown

Mary Anderson 

Maria Sibylla Merian

Margaret Calvert 

Shirley Jackson 

Mary Anning 

Carol Shaw

Jo Da Sliva

Angela Spang

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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