Aung San Suu Kyi (1945 – ) is a pro-democracy actiist and leader of the National League for Democracy in , a prisoner of conscience and advocate of nonviolent resistance. She is currently under detention, with the Myanmar junta repeatedly extending her detention. According to the results of the 1990 general election, Suu Kyi earned […]

Amalie Emmy Noether was born on 23 March 1882 in Erlangen, . She was a mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, and was described by Albert Einstein and others as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. Table of Contents 1 Education 2 Career 1908-1920 3 Work […]

Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) (born 3 November 1933), is a Bengali Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, “for his contributions to welfare economics” for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. Table of Contents […]

Vrinda Nabar (born 1948) studied at the Universities of Bombay (Mumbai, India) and Oxford. Her doctoral and postdoctoral work has dealt with postcolonial and women’s issues and she has published widely in these areas. She has written regularly for Indian newspapers, and has presented programmes on radio and television. Her publications include Caste as Women […]

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. She wrote often on the inequalities and discrimination women face, most famously in the essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) and in Orlando […]