By now everyone should know teachers don't get enough appreciation, from students or parents! This list may not be every single woman who worked as a teacher in her life (because let's be honest, as early back as a century ago teaching was about the only profession women could go into before making history), but this list does cover the women who taught and were loved for it or made a name for themselves while doing it.
Entries:
- Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created the First Real Leprosy Treatment
- Alice Berry Graham, Used Her Teacher's Salary to Send Her Baby Sister to Medical School
- Angela Hutchinson Hammer, Territorial Teacher in Arizona
- Anna D Allen, World War II Veteran and Schoolteacher
- Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher
- Annie Edson Taylor, First Person to Survive Falling Down Niagara Falls in a Barrel
- Annie Jump Cannon, Pioneering Astronomer
- Bettisia Gozzadini, The First Woman in World History Known to Have Taught at a University
- Claire Schillace Donahoe, Teacher and Baseball Player
- Deborah Sampson Gannett, Revolutionary War Soldier
- Dorothy Fosdick, Foreign Policy Expert and Political Theorist Teacher
- Dorothy Garrod, First Woman to Hold an Oxford and Cambridge Chair; Archaeologist
- Dorothy Stratton, Psychology Professor & First Full-Time Women's Dean at Purdue University
- Edith Clarke, the First Female Electrical Engineer
- Elizabeth Blackburn, Nobel Prize Winner and Former President of the Salk Institute
- Elizabeth Jennings Graham, Taught Her Students to Stand Up Against Injustice
- Elizabeth Peabody, Opened the First English Language Kindergarten in the United States
- Ella Cara Deloria, Teacher, Linguist, Anthropologist, and Ethnographer
- Emilie Sagee, The Teacher With the Ghostly Follower
- Emily Howland, Abolitionist and Civil Rights Leader
- Etta Schureman Jones, Teacher who Became a Prisoner of War During World War II
- Fereshteh Forough, Taught For Three Years Before Founding a Company to Teach Afghani Girls How to Code
- Flora Call Disney, Walt and Roy's Mom
- Gertrude Carraway, President General of the DAR and So Much More
- Grace Coolidge, Teacher and Later President of a School for the Deaf
- Helen Graham-Gill PhD, Mother, Grandmother, Teacher, and so Much More
- Helen Purviance, The Donut Queen of World War I
- Hildegard von Bingen, Catholic Nun who defied gender norms
- Hypatia of Alexandria, she's my number one for a reason
- Jane Stanford, Co-Founder of Stanford University
- Joanne Winter, Golf Teacher For Over Thirty Years
- Julia Child, Celebrity Chef
- Kate Shelley, Railroad Heroine
- Katharine Wright Haskell, Latin Teacher and Secretary of the Wright Glider Company
- Kathryn Beaumont, Voice Actress and Disney Legend Who Became a Magical High School Teacher
- Lana Peters, Soviet Literature & English Language Teacher
- Leonore Goldschmidt, Schoolteacher Who Continued to Teach Jewish Children in Hitler's Berlin
- Lucie Aubrac, Schoolteacher and Member of the French Resistance
- Margaret Harwood, The First Female Director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory
- Maria Montessori, Creator of the Montessori Learning Technique
- Mary Jo Kopechne, Teacher and Campaign Worker
- Mary McLeod Bethune, Founder of One of the First African American Colleges in the United States
- Maude Frazier, First Female Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, Who'd Spent The Previous Fifty Years Working to Further Education in the State
- Mildred Fish-Harnack, American Literature Professor & The Only American Woman Executed by the Nazis
- Prudence Crandall, Abolitionist who Opened the First School for African American Girls in New England
- Rachel Eaton, Cherokee Educator, Teacher, Author, and School Superintendent
- Salima Ikram, got a question on Egyptian mummies? Ask her!
- Selma Lagerlof, Novelist Who Taught Before Her Writing Career Took Off
- Shirley Chisholm, The First African American Woman to Serve in the United States House of Representatives
- Sophie Scholl, Member of the White Rose Resistance Movement and Kindergarten Teacher
- Sutematsu Oyama, Women's Education Advocate in Her Native Japan
- Toni Palermo, Teacher, Baseball Player, and Nun