In 1970, Max Dashu founded the Suppressed Histories Archives to research and document women's history and to make the full spectrum of women's history and culture visible and accessible. The collection includes 15,000 slides and 30,000 digital images. Since the early 1970s, Dashu has delivered visual presentations on women's history throughout North America, Europe and Australia. https://www.suppressedhistories.net/ #WomenInHistory #SuppressedHistories #AheadOfHerTime

Marija Gimbutas is best known for research into Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of Old Europe and her Kurgan hypothesis. Directing major excavations of Neolithic sites, she gained fame and notoriety with her later books, based on her documented findings: The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe; The Language of the Goddess, and The Civilization of the Goddess. Mainstream archaeology dismissed her later works. Photo: Max Dashu poster of female icons
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The Chipko movement (Hindi: chipko andolan, lit. '[tree] hugging movement') is a forest conservation movement in India.
The movement originated in 1973 at the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh) and went on to become a rallying point for many future environmental movements all over the world. It created a precedent for starting nonviolent protest in India. #environment #forest #climatecrisis #AheadOfHerTime

Cecilia Payne was an astronomer and astrophysicist who proposed in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed mainly of hydrogen and helium. Her conclusion was rejected because it contradicted the scientific wisdom of the time, which held that there were no significant elemental differences between the Sun and Earth. Independent observations eventually proved her correct. Her work on the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics. #astrophysics #AheadOfHerTime

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Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967. During her run, race manager Jock Semple assaulted her, trying to remove her from official competition. However, after a scuffle, she completed the race.
The AAU banned women from competing in races against men as a result of her run, and it was not until 1972 that the Boston Marathon established an official women's race. #WomenInSports #AheadOfHerTime #running

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Mary Shelley was 21 when she published her novel ‘Frankenstein’. Her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, author of 'A Vindication of the Rights of Women'. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin. Wollstonecraft died of puerperal fever shortly after Mary was born and Godwin was left to bring up Mary, along with her older half-sister, Fanny Imlay.
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Bessie Coleman was the first Black & Native American woman to hold a pilot's license. There were no flight training opportunities in the US, so she saved and obtained sponsorships in Chicago, to go to flight school in France. She became a high-profile pilot in notoriously dangerous air shows in the United States. She had hoped to start a school for African-American fliers but died in a plane crash in 1926. #WomenInAviation #AviationHistory
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Cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In her research on maize she discovered genetic transposition, but due to skepticism of her work and its implications, she stopped publishing her data in 1953. However, her research became well understood in the ‘60s and ‘70 as other scientists confirmed the mechanisms of genetic change and protein expression, which she had demonstrated decades earlier. #WomenInSTEM #AheadOfHerTime

Lucy Wills, English haematologist and physician, conducted research in the late 1920s and early 1930s on macrocytic anaemia of pregnancy. She discovered a nutritional factor in yeast that both prevents and cures the disorder. Called the ‘Wills Factor', it was subsequently shown to be folate (Vit B9), the naturally occurring form of folic acid. Folic acid is also used as a supplement by women during pregnancy to reduce the risk of neural tube defects in the baby. #WomenInSTEM
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Vera Rubin (1928 – 2016) was an American astronomer whose work provided the first evidence for the existence of dark matter. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves. Her results were confirmed over subsequent decades.

Pioneering the field for many, Rubin spent her life advocating for women in science and was known for her mentorship of aspiring female astronomers.

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Chemist Rosalind Franklin was the first to document the double-helix structure of DNA, using X-ray diffraction images. In the middle of February 1953, Crick's thesis advisor, Max Perutz, gave him a copy of a report written in December 1952, containing many of Franklin's crystallographic calculations. Franklin, largely unrecognized during her life, died in 1958. Watson, Crick and WIlkins shared the Nobel Prize for discovering the double-helix in 1962. #WomenInSTEM #AheadOfHerTime

Astronomer Nancy Grace Roman made important contributions to stellar classification and motions. The first female executive at NASA, Roman served as NASA's first Chief of Astronomy throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She created NASA's space astronomy program and is known to many as the "Mother of Hubble" for her foundational role in planning the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Frances Kelsey, Physician and Pharmacologist. As a reviewer for the US FDA, she refused to authorize thalidomide for market due to concerns about the lack of evidence regarding its safety. Her concerns proved to be justified when it was shown that thalidomide caused serious birth defects. Her career intersected with the passage of laws strengthening FDA oversight of pharmaceuticals. #WomenInSTEM #AheadOfHerTime

Evelyn Berezin invented the first computer-driven word processor. In 1969 she founded Redactron, a public company delivering thousands of systems throughout its international marketing organization. In the 1970s, Redactron was sold to the Burroughs Corporation, mainly due to the effect of 16% inflation on rented equipment, which was standard in the field at the time. It was Integrated into Burroughs office equipment division and Berezin stayed on until 1979. #WomenInSTEM #AheadOfHerTime

Mathematician and aerospace engineer Mary Jackson started as a computer at the segregated West Area Computing division in 1951. She took advanced engineering classes and in 1958 became NASA's first black female engineer.  She worked in Compressibility Research, Full-Scale Research, High-Speed Aerodynamics and Subsonic-Transonic Aerodynamics, authoring or co-authoring 12 technical papers. She advised women and other minorities on how to qualify for promotions. #WomenInSTEM #AheadOfHerTime

In 1966, nurse and innovator Marie Van Brittan invented the concept of a video home security system. She built it with the help of her husband Albert Brown, an electronics technician. Their patent application, the first of its kind, was granted in 1969. For her innovation she received an award from the National Science Committee. Her invention was cited in at least 32 future patent applications. Her concept is now used in businesses around the world.

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