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Kerreen M. Reiger (born 1946) is an Australian academic, sociologist and author. [1] She lives in Melbourne and teaches sociology at La Trobe University. She has a special interest in family, motherhood and childbirth [2] and was one of the founders of the activist group Maternity Coalition.
Judith Marilyn Maddigan, Australian politician, was Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 2003 to 2005. She was the member for the seat of Essendon from 1996 to 2010, representing the Labor Party.
Eliza Rowdon Hall was an Australian philanthropist.
Marie Tulip was an Australian feminist writer, academic and proponent for the ordination of women as priests.
Georgina Sweet was an Australian zoologist and women's rights activist. She was the first woman to graduate with a Doctor of Science from the University of Melbourne, and was the first female acting professor in an Australian university.
Hilary Jane McPhee is an Australian writer and editor. She was awarded an Order of Australia for service to the Arts in 2003.
Jillian Claire Tabart is a former president of the Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia and medical practitioner. She served a three-year term as president of the assembly from July 1994 to July 1997, and was the first woman to be elected to the role.
Patricia Ann Grimshaw, is a retired Australian academic who specialised in women's and Indigenous peoples' history. One of her most influential works is Women's Suffrage in New Zealand, first published in 1972, which is considered the definitive work on the story of how New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote.
Ewen Cameron was a politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
Gretna Margaret Weste was a leading scientist noted for her work in plant pathology and mycology, specifically with Phytophthora cinnamomi.
Diana Joan "Ding" Dyason (1919–1989) was a highly respected Australian lecturer and historian of medicine with major teaching and life-long research interests in public health and germ theory. She is most notable in the significant impact she had in her scholarly discipline. As a woman who firstly worked in the traditional roles of research assistant and demonstrator in the non-traditional discipline of science, Dyason progressed to become a leader at a major Australian university, overcoming barriers of gender and culture at a national and international level, receiving awards and honors in the process. She broke through the gender-based 'glass ceiling' in the academic workplace to establish and develop the new interdisciplinary field of study of the History and Philosophy of Science that brings together The Two Cultures of the sciences and the humanities.
Jocelyn Sophia Hyslop (1897–1974) was mainly known for her contribution to social work in Australia.
Janet Susan McCalman, is an Australian social historian, population researcher and author at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. McCalman won the Ernest Scott Prize in 1984 and 2022 (shared); the second woman to have won and one of eight historians to have won the prize twice.
Shurlee Lesley Swain, is an Australian social welfare historian, researcher and author. Since August 2017 she has been an Emeritus Professor at the Australian Catholic University (ACU).
Cora Vellekoop Baldock is an Australian-Dutch Sociologist. She was president of the Australian Sociological Association 1979-1980 and served as a member of the Australian Federal Government's Multicultural Advisory Committee. She was the first female professor at Murdoch University, Perth, and its first professor of sociology.
Cecily Maude O'Connell was an Australian trade unionist and religious social worker.
Jennifer Anne Gregory is an Australian academic and historian. Her research and writing focuses on the history of Western Australia. As of September 2020 she is professor emerita at the University of Western Australia.
Fiona Kerr Paisley is a Scottish-born Australian cultural historian at Griffith University. Her research and writing focuses on Australian Indigenous, feminist and transnational history.
Mary Dunstan Wilson was an Australian educator and member of the Sisters of Charity of Australia.
Judith Smart is an Australian social historian and feminist.
Margaret "Greta" Anne Lyons was an activist for nurses' rights, a private hospital owner, and a founding member of multiple nurses' associations...
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