For International Women's Day 2022 Nominate

Brilliant idea for a thread.
Thanks trisher.
I have my thinking cap on…

Hannah More - writer, poet, and philanthropist. Campaigned for social reform, female education and the abolition of slavery.

Rosalind Elsie Franklin was an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.

She accomplished the research before Watson and Crick who took the credit for the research.

Another vote for Mo Moslem

That’s a really good shout Beanutz
I remember reading about Franklin and being quite shocked how sidelined she had been.

I am going a bit lighter and would like to nominate Tina Turner, who showed that it was possible to get away from a bad situation and renew a career in middle age. She went on to great success and has given a lot of pleasure to many people.

Love these-had to Google Hannah More.
I had heard of Rosalin Franklin but didn't realise how important her research was.
TinaTurner-Simply the Best!

If we are opening things up a bit, I’ll go with More’s contemporary, the proto-feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft

Sojourner Truth. She led so many people to safety, during the time of American slavery, on the underground railroad.
She was an abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man.. And while she is known, she doesn't have the notoriety of men such as Fredrick Douglas or Martin Luther King.

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Williamina Fleming. Born in Dundee in 1857, left school at 14. Abandoned by her husband in Boston, Massachusetts. Worked as a maid in the home of astronomy professor Edward Pickering, who saw her talents and employed her in his observatory.

She discovered hundreds of nebulae and stars, including the Horsehead Nebula, and she identified the first white dwarf stars.

Bumping this thread!
Please nominate your favourite woman of note

Another vote here for Mo Mowlem.

Shirley Williams visited my school years ago, talked with 6th formers and they really liked her. They said she listened intently and used their names when she responded to what they said. I wish I thought there were more Westminster politicians like that.

Thanks for the suggestions I wondered if Sojourner had said the words "No one is free until we are all free so Googled them. They are attributed to Martin Luther King. But a woman said them first. And a woman wrote the poem which is displayed on the Statue of Liberty

The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
So Emma Lazarus- writer, poet and activist for Jewis causes. Her words are remembered but she isn't.
"Until we are all free, we are none of us free"

Joanna Cherry QC., J K Rowling.

Mine are three. Katherine Johnston, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson.
The three black female mathematicians who helped America win the space race and put John Glenn into space.

Aphra Behn, 1640-89. Playwright, novelist, poet and sometime spy. One of the first women to earn her living by her own writing. Acknowledged by Virginia Woolf as the person 'who earned (women) the right to speak their minds'.

Dame Mary Beard, classicist and feminist, not afraid to voice unpopular views.

Ada Lovelace - instrumental in the development of the computer.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

Katherine Johnson. Although brilliantly clever, she had to fight because she was female and because she was black. She is remembered as the woman who got the US into space.

Hedy Lamarr, best known as an actress, but also helped to develop a communications system which was used during the war and also paved the way for today's technologies such as wi-fi.
And on a Scottish note, Elsie Inglis - doctor, surgeon, teacher, suffragist, founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, and the first woman to hold the Serbian Order of the White Eagle.

Thanks so much for these. So many unacknowledged women.

Blondiescot's mention of Elsie Inglis reminded me of Flora Sandes, the only British woman to serve as a soldier in WW1. She became a captain in the Serbian Army and was seriously wounded in hand to hand combat, but survived and went on to marry and be interned by the Germans in WW2. She lived until she was 80 years old, dying in 1956.

Blondiescot - Elsie Inglis on a Scottish note