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Unfinished, obviously.
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Last updated: 2023-05-09
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Last updated: 2023-07-10
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## Art
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- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
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- [Evelyn Berezin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Berezin): designed the first computer word proecssor
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- [Edith Clarke](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Clarke?lang=en): first woman to earn a degree in electrical engineering
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- [Marian Croak](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Croak?lang=en): invented VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
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- [Judith Estrin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Estrin): instrumental in the invention of TCP
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- [Margaret Hamilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)): lead programmer on the Apollo project
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- [Grace Hopper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper): created the first compiler for a programming language
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- [Susan Kare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare): "pioneer of pixel art"; designed many of the icons, fonts, and images for Apple, NeXT, and IBM in the 1980s
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## Social Change
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- [Claudette Colvin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin): pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement; refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks did
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- [Ruth Ellis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ellis_(activist)): LGBT rights activist; oldest known surviving open lesbian
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- [Barbara Gittings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Gittings): "mother of the gay rights movement"; part of the movement to get the APA to drop homosexuality as a mental illness
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- [Temple Grandin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin): one of the first public figures to publically come out as Autistic; animal welfare activist that campaigned for humane treatment of cattle in beef processing plants
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- [Maura Healey](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Maura_Healey?lang=en): first open lesbian elected attorney general of a USA state, one of the first LGBT governors of a USA state, and first woman elected governor of the state of Massachusetts
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- [Judith Heumann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Heumann): held the longest sit-in in a government building for the enactment of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (civil rights protection for disabled people)
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- [Qiu Jin](https://archive.md/rhArg): Chinese revolutionary, poet, and early feminist
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- [Elizabeth Peratrovich](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peratrovich?lang=en): instrumental in the passing of the USA's first anti-discrimination law
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- [Grunya Sukhareva](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_Sukhareva): child psychiatrist; first to publish a detailed description of autistic symptoms
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## Misc
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- [Marie Van Brittan Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown): co-invented home security surveillance
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