Marie Carmichael Stopes (15 October 1880 – 2 October 1958) was a Scottish author, palaeobotanist, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of family planning.
Photograph by GL Archive, AlamyRay Costelloe, pictured here, was a remarkable woman for her time, opening a welding school and building her own house.
Photograph by Len Collection, AlamyRed Cross nurses work at microscopes in a biology lab during World War I.
Photograph by Paul Thompson, National Geograpic CreativeDorothea Bate, a geologist, was put in charge of the collections in the Natural History Museum in London during WWI.
Photograph by The Natural History Museum, AlamyLike Marie Curie, women during WWI put themselves in harm's way by using radiation to take X-rays at the front.
Photograph by Time & Life Pictures, Mansell, The Life Picture Collection, GettyPhotograph by Oxford University Pres