two women in white coats dwarfed by machines in early C20th #WHM26 #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Dr Marie LV Gayler #metallurgist - discoveries in aluminium alloys & dental amalgams revolutionised tooth fillings. Spent most of career @ National Physical Laboratory. 1 of 3 women ever made Honorary Member British Dental Association b. #OTD 25 Mar 1891 #WHM2025 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_L...

As a changemaker in STEM, her journey inspires the next generation to follow their dreams, and lead with intention.

#WHM2025 #WomenInScience #STEM

✨ Among the most influential figures in modern medicine, Dr. Maude Abbott helped pave the way for women pursuing careers in medicine and STEM. Her legacy lives on through the discoveries and innovations that continue to advance global healthcare.

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Today, her legacy remains ever present, shattering the glass ceiling for women in STEM for generations to come.

#WHM2025 #WomenInSTEM #CanadianHistory

#WHM2025 #Canada
#BrendaLucki #JanetteBertrand #JeanAugustine #NicoleJuteau #Dr.JulielynnWong
#WomenofImpactinCanada #VintageTV

✨With a career spanning more than seven decades, Dr. Milner’s ongoing curiosity and insight have inspired generations of scientists and continue to shape neuroscience research today.

#WHM2025 #WomenInSTEM #Science #CanadianHistory

I was honoured to have narrated Historica Canada's Heritage Minutes video covering Elsie MacGill's legacy, in French. With Dr. Donna Strickland narrating the video in English. Check it out! 🔗https://youtu.be/stnMHGw8qkQ

#WHM2025 #WomenInSTEM #Science #CanadianHistory

WHAT A MONTH! So many events, laughs, and initiatives! We are so grateful for your community and all the moments we came together. While today marks the last day of #WomensHistoryMonth, don't worry, every month is Women's History Month for us!

#Oregon #WomensFoundationofOregon #WFO #WHM2025

#RememberTheLadies #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM2025

“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up.”— Serena Williams #whm2025 #motivationmonday

Photograph of gates and gateposts from Leyton House, Church Road, Leyton, c.1933. From VHM photo collection available, in our Searchroom.

Portrait of Helen More [Gertrude]. Line engraving by René Lochon, 1658. ©National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp89714/helen-more-gertrude

Leyton House gates c1933, relic of mid 17th cent house. The earlier house, thought to be at same site, was the family home of Helen More [Gertrude] (1606-1633). A Benedictine nun, she co-founded Our Lady of Comfort, Cambrai 1623 (later Stanbrook Abbey). 📷 Portrait ©National Portrait Gallery #WHM2025

Ellen Swallow Richards in oval b&w photo

Ellen Swallow Richards C19th US industrial & safety engineer, environmental chemist. Work in sanitary engineering & domestic science research laid foundation for new science of home economics 1st to apply chemistry to study of nutrition d. #OTD 30 Mar 1911 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_S... #WHM2025

Photograph of Forest House, Leytonstone. Image ©Vestry House Museum, from photo collection available in our Searchroom.

Portrait of Mary Fletcher (née Bosanquet), mezzotint by Jonathan Spilsbury, 1812. Image ©National Portrait Gallery Link: https://is.gd/CqM5SC

Forest House, Leytonstone. Early home of Mary Fletcher (1739-1815), Methodist preacher who founded a Christian community at The Cedars, Leytonstone, 1763-68. Influential in John Wesley's approval of women preachers from 1771. 📷 House ©Vestry House Museum; portrait ©National Portrait Gallery #WHM2025

Fazila Samadova in later life seated in chair

Fazila Samadova #Azerbaijani chemical engineer. Head of Lab @ Research Institute of Petrochemical Processes. 530 scientific works incl 64 copyright certificates & patents.1987 Prof of Oil & Gas Tech, 1991 Honoured Scientist of Azerbaijan b #OTD 29 Mar 1929 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazila_... #WHM2025

Walthamstow House, illustration from 'Some Walthamstow Houses' by G F Bosworth, Walthamstow Antiquarian Society (1924). Reproduction of engraving by J Hassell 1803.

Portrait of Eleanor, Lady Wigram. Engraving by Charles Turner 1817, from portrait by Thomas Lawrence 1815. Source: Creative Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Turner_-_Lady_Wigram_-_B1970.3.475_-_Yale_Center_for_British_Art.jpg

Walthamstow House, Shernhall Street, the Wigram family home 1782-1842. Philanthropist Eleanor, Lady Wigram (1767-1841) improved women's welfare & contributed to development of education provision in Walthamstow. She founded Walthamstow Female Benefit Society in 1815. 📷 Portrait is.gd/8lgbxR #WHM2025

Helena Amélia Oehler Stemmer in grainy b&w photo,

Helena Amélia Oehler Stemmer #Brazilian civil engineer & university professor. Graduated 1954 also studied @rwth.bsky.social in Germany. Only woman to head an engineering department at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in almost 50 years d #OTD 28 Mar 2016 bit.ly/3hclpT1 #WomeninSTEM #WHM2025

MWRD Celebrates Women’s History Month with “Women Protecting Women” Event

Learn more: mwrd.org/news/mwrd-ce...

#MWRD #CookCounty #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM2025

We are loving all the events and community this month for #WomensHistoryMonth! Sharing a couple of great moments from the Equal Rights for All Campaign Launch! Looking forward to continuing to work with our community for equity and justice!
#Oregon #WHM2025 #GenderJustice #SocialJustice

ICYMI: Leading women in energy took the stage at last year’s Stakeholder Symposium to share their experiences and thoughts on markets, load growth, resource adequacy and the economic benefits that are important to their customers. ⚡

Watch here ➡️ ow.ly/uHAO50Uf8s2

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Rita Morais de Sarmento in sepia photo of young woman in 1890s clothes

Rita Morais de Sarmento 1st #WomanEngineer in #Portugal 1 of 1st woman in #Europe to earn #engineering degree, graduating in Civil Engineering and Public Works in 1894. Earned chartered status as civil #engineer in 1896. d. #OTD 28th Mar 1931 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_de... #WomenInSTEM #WHM2025

Marsh Street (now High St), Walthamstow, Coe's map 1822. Dorothea Foulger (1787-1852) co-founded a school for daughters of missionaries here, 1838. Known as Walthamstow Hall School, it moved to Sevenoaks, Kent in 1882. Dorothea lived in Hoe St & was active in Marsh St Congregational Church. #WHM2025

Elsie MacGill Queen of the Hurricanes

Elsie MacGill Queen of the Hurricanes. Prob 1st woman to earn aeronautical engineering degree, 1st woman in #Canada to earn BA in electrical engineering. #WWII Aeronautical engineer & @ Canadian Car & Foundry then ran consulting business b. #OTD 27 Mar 1905 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_M... #WHM2025

Winifred Crossley Fair in flying suit, fur lined boots, flying helmet and goggles stood half in half out of open plane cockpit writing on a clipboard that someone is reaching up to from photo left

Winifred Crossley Fair 1st woman checked out to fly #Hurricane fighter. Pilot before #WWII worked towing banners for aerial advertising for 5 yrs & as stunt pilot in air circus. Served Air Transport Auxiliary #ATA 1940-5, 2nd in command @ Ferry pool No 5. d #OTD 27 Mar 1984 bit.ly/3Q5C5ha #WHM2025

The Heritage Centre houses the collection of the Wotton-under-Edge Historical Society as well as a wide range of resources for family and local history research.

A weekend of centenary celebrations for Polish 🇵🇱 #writer Sophie Guaider Brzeska starts tomorrow in Wotton-Under-Edge. How did she come to spend her final years in Gloucestershire? Find the answers in the events ....

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To wrap up #WHM2025 & celebrate 25 years of WLP, we’re sharing stories from some of our partners as they tackle pressing issues.

“Learning from the Past, Partnering for the Future” reflects on how far we’ve come and how collective action can help us reach the finish line.

Check out the series👇🏽

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker #whm2025 #friYEAHEve

Elsie Eaves in later life with corsage on shoulder

Elsie Eaves #engineer #enginnering #journalist. Made 1st US inventory of municipal & industrial sewage disposal facilities, wrote on revitalizing construction industry in Great Depression & post #WWII planning. 1925 memb UK Womens Eng Soc d #OTD 27 Mar 1983 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_E... #WHM2025

Leytonstone House, c.1910. From VHM photo collection, available in our Searchroom.

Portrait photograph of Priscilla Johnston (née Buxton). Source: Creative Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-2022-02-14_Priscilla_Buxton,_Overstrand,_Norfolk.JPG

Leytonstone House c1910. Abolitionist Priscilla Johnston (1808-1852) lived here in 1851. Co-secretary of London Female Anti-Slavery Society from 1832, she was involved in organising the national ladies’ anti-slavery petition in 1833, the largest single abolitionist petition ever presented. #WHM2025

María Bernaldo de Quirós sat in open cockpit of early plane, flying goggles on forehead

María Bernaldo de Quirós was 1st woman in Spain to earn pilot's licence, passing test in October 1928. In 1929 she was 1 of 1st women to get divorced said "As public opinion evolves, people will realize that women can do more than just embroider." b. #OTD 26 Mar 1898 bit.ly/3JqoFYF #WHM2025 #pilot

#WomenInSTEM #AI #WHM2025