Civil rights pioneer and campaigner, Ruby Hurley is most known for her work with the NAACP in the 1950s and 1960s.

Known as the founder of the Girl Scouts, Juliette Gordon Low created the largest and most successful organisation for girls in the world.

Educator, soldier, and psychologist, Charity Adams Earley led the first African American women’s unit of the army on a tour of duty overseas during WWII.

Famous chef, author, and television personality, Julia Child made French cuisine accessible to American audiences.

Marie Dietrich was one of the most popular film and music stars of the 1930s and 1940s.

Oveta Culp Hobby served as the director of the Women’s Army Corps and first secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Chemist Virginia Spivey Coleman worked on the atomic weapons program during WWII.

Physicist Leona Woods Marshall Libby was one of the women who helped to create the atomic weapon.

Miné Okubo is well known for her representations of daily life and humanity in drawings depicting Japanese American internment during WWII.

Pearl S. Buck produced works of fiction and non-fiction throughout her lifetime, many of which focused on her experiences in China.

Florence Hall headed the Women's Land Army during World War II.