Carol was born in Palo Alto, California in 1955, her father was a mechanical engineer. During her childhood, she had no interest in dolls and typical toys for girls at that time, Carol preferred to play with her brothers and the model railway that they had. Carol was always good at math, but became interested … Continue reading “Carol Shaw, First Woman Video Game Designer”
“The beauty of mathematics only shows itself to more patient followers” by Maryam Mirzakhani
Her real name was Umeko Miura, she was born in Otaru, Hokkaido on February 20, 1915, the seventh daughter of eight siblings. She and her family eventually moved to the Meguro district of Tokyo where she was raised along with her brothers. In 1928, she joined a female-only theater group called Takarazuka Revue, part of … Continue reading “Takiko Mizunoe, First Woman Producer on Japan”
María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías María Luisa was born in 1912 at Veracruz, Mexico. At a time, when women were destined for domestic tasks and with restricted access to professional education, at the age of 21, María Luisa entered to the Real Academy of Fine Arts. Later, on July 17th 1939, she received her Architect degree. … Continue reading “María Luisa Dehesa Gómez Farías, The First Woman Architect in Mexico and Latin America”
“I have many dreams to fulfill that after my retirement from Santo Tomás I want to carry out thanks to the experience of 36 years of work” – Laura Zamora Laura Zamora She was born in Baja California, Mexico. She studied a career as a laboratory technician and got a job for Bodegas Santo Tomas … Continue reading “Laura Zamora, First Female Enologist in Mexico”
Eulalia Guzmán Barrón (1890–1985) was a post-war feminist pioneer, educator, and nationalist thinker of the Mexican Revolution. She was a progressive social and cultural fighter of great importance to the movements of the 20th Century. Eulalia learned several languages, she was fluent in German, English, French, and Italian. References: Guzmán Barron Eulalia. Publicaciones Digitales, DGSCA, UNAM. … Continue reading “Eulalia Guzman, The First Mexican Antropologist”
“I am completely primitive and wild. I love freedom above all else” Aurora Reyes Aurora Reyes The activist, painter, poet and teacher Aurora Reyes was born on September 9, 1908 in Chihuahua Mexico, in a prestigious family that supported the government of Porfirio Diaz. During her childhood difficult times came, given the fall of the … Continue reading “Aurora Reyes, The First Woman Muralist in Mexico”
A pioneer of photography in Mexico, she was born in the city of Querétaro in 1874 in a well-off family. At an early age, she and her family moved to Mexico City, where she later installed a photographic studio, one of the first installed ones by a woman. Her photography stood out for making portraits, … Continue reading “Natalia Baquedano, pioneer female photographer and one of the first Mexican woman to open a photography studio”
At the time you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Averil did know it and she became what she wanted to be Averil Mansfield She was born in the United Kingdom on June 21, 1937. Since she was a child, she felt very attracted to science and medicine. … Continue reading “Averil Mansfield, The First Female Professor of Surgery in the United Kingdom”
Would you like to be in a school learning how to make the special effects for movies? Laura did it Laura Pedro Albiol She was born in 1989 in Barcelona, Spain She studied film at the Superior School of Cinema and Audiovisual of Catalonia (ESCAC) and specialized in visual effects Her first job as a … Continue reading “Laura Pedro is the first woman to win a Goya Award for Best Special Effects”
