Eleanor Roosevelt And Florence Nightingale

[Stargazer]

are two of the most outstanding ladies of the nineteenth/twentieth century. Who will agree with me and who else should I include?

[aelmpvw]

it'll be a long list but Marie Curie springs to mind

[DTCwordfan]

Marie Curie, Mother Theresa, Golda Meier, QE2? How many do you want?

[Buenchico]

I hope that you've included Florence Nightingale as a statistician, rather than as a nurse. The fatality rate for wounded soldiers increased dramatically when she brought them all together into hospitals, where infections spread quickly among them!

A few obvious candidates for your list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Herschel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofya_Kovalevskaya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Somerville

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Webb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Bell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bront%C3%AB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphne_du_Maurier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Fry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_May_Alcott

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_Chanel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmeline_Pankhurst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks

[Stargazer]

Yes, Florence Nightingale was much more than being remembered as a nurse. She was a reformer and managed through her connections to get things done. Scutari was built over a sewer and men who were at that end of the barracks hospital invariably died even though their wounds were not expected to be fatal. When the government eventually rebuilt the sanitation it was discovered that their "fresh' water was being delivered through a route contains the carcass of a dead horse.

[tiggerblue10]

Heddy Lamarr

[jourdain2]

Edith Cavell sprang to mind,but there are so many.