This tea towel features the achievements of 12 women pioneers from history - not nearly enough to tell the full story, but at least a start! From the pioneering journalist Ida B. Wells to the forgotten ground-breaking scientist Rosalind Franklin, all deserve to be celebrated.
Women featured are:
Ida B. Wells - American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator and civil rights activist
Junko Tabei - Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher
Elizabeth Blackwell - English-American physician
Emily Roebling - Engineer
Ada Lovelace - Mathematian and considered the first computer programmer
Marie Curie - Physicist and chemist
Kate Sheppard - New Zealand suffragist
Rosalind Franklin - Chemist and X-ray crystallographer
Bessie Coleman - Civil aviator
Susan B. Anthony - Social reformer and women's rights activist
Mary Wollstonecraft - English writer, philosopher and women's rights advocate
Jane Austen - English novelist