Nancy Maria Donaldson Johnson was awarded the first US patent for a hand-cranked ice cream freezer in 1843.

Jackson conducted breakthrough basic scientific research that enabled others to invent the portable fax, the touch-tone telephone, solar cells, fiber optic cables, and the technology behind caller ID and call waiting.

Gender diversity is important. Ensuring equal representation of women in the workplace can have positive effects all across your entire organization. Here are some of them.

Gender inequality in the workplace isn’t limited to unequal wages, either. Women, especially black women, LGBTQ+ women, and women of color, continue to face barriers to move into leadership positions and are likely to face microaggressions — offensive statements or insensitive questions — related to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual identity.

One half of the duo behind Grab, Tan Hooi Ling has had quite a start in her career, and not just because of the on-demand transport mobile platform that made her into one of the most prominent young tech entrepreneurs in the region.

Nigerian writer whose works include novels, short stories and nonfiction.

Milena Kadieva recently triumphed at the Women of Europe awards where she was recognised for "undertaking extraordinary actions at the grassroots level".

Finland's youngest prime minister 

From the first female monarch to the first female president of the Philippines 

The guardians and the war on truth

Torchbearer of the Arab Spring

Roberts was the first woman of color and first openly LGBT woman to host the American TV game show Jeopardy!

In 2004, Hidayah and a group of other human rights activists started Migrant Care, which fights for better protection for Indonesia’s migrant workers. Today, the organization receives more than 1,000 calls every year from workers or families needing help.

As the iron-willed leader of the Women's Franchise League and later the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), she fought for women’s right to vote in the United Kingdom — by any means.

Her history of dissenting opinions on the court built her up as an icon and, as Rolling Stone(opens in new tab) wrote, earned her the moniker “the Notorious RBG.’”

Born into slavery in 1797, Isabella Baumfree, who later changed her name to Sojourner Truth, would become one of the most powerful advocates for human rights in the nineteenth century.

An English mathematician and an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer.

Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.

She founded the order, The Missionaries of Charity, to look after abandoned babies and to help the poorest of the poor, once saying that they "lived like animals but die like angels". In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize and after her death was canonised as Saint Teresa.

She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland.