Women I admire from recent history

EEJit

There are a few modern women to be admired, in no particular order:-

Margaret Thatcher
Betty Boothroyd
Penny Mordaunt
Esther Rantzen
I'm ashamed to say I can't bring the next woman's name to mind. She was the poor woman who died of breast cancer recently, if I remember rightly she was made a Dame.

Do you mean 'Bowel Babe' Deborah James?

There are a few modern women to be admired, in no particular order:-

Margaret Thatcher
Betty Boothroyd
Penny Mordaunt
Esther Rantzen
I'm ashamed to say I can't bring the next woman's name to mind. She was the poor woman who died of breast cancer recently, if I remember rightly she was made a Dame.

Another vote for Marie Stopes - with admiration and gratitude.

A little further back in time but relevant to the medical theme was Lady Wortly Montagu. In the early eighteenth century she came across the practice of inoculation in Turkey. She had her own children inoculated against smallpox in 1721 and brought the concept back to the UK where even royalty took it up. She was responsible for saving many lives and much disfigurement.

Marie Stoppes. The first woman to set up Birth control clinics in a man-led world.

Nadine Dorries? Just joking.

Ada Salter, still a South London icon. Social reformer, environmentalist, pacifist and Quaker. Appointed Mayor of Bermondsey in 1922, the first female mayor in London and first female Labour mayor in UK. She and her husband Dr Alfred Salter MP insisted on living in Bermondsey and sadly paid the price with the death of their only daughter Joyce in 1910 from scarlet fever that frequently raged through the slums. An inspirational woman.

As a cyclist...
Beryl Burton, Annie Londonderry... and more recently, Lizzie Deignan, Juliana Buhring

I admire Esther Rantzen for her years of campaigning, for child-line etc. and now for her courage regarding her recent cancer diagnosis.

Barbara Castle

So many pioneering woman. One that stands out for me, Elizabeth Garret Anderson, 1865 first English woman to become a Dr and surgeon. First woman to be elected to a school board, first female magistrate. Feminist, socialist and she founded the first hospital for women, now part of UCL.and the first school of medicine for women. Quite an achievement for someone with no formal schooling until her teenage years. Fascinating .

So many, so many. I'll start with Maya Angelou, Doris Lessing, and Simone De Beauvoir in the literary field.

Very interesting Blossoming.
For me, Bessie Braddock who campaigned for better conditions for the poor in Liverpool.
Dame Shirley Williams, a politician with integrity.
Sister Wendy, although a nun, an inspiring authority on one of my favourite subjects, art.