3 Incredible Women that became STEM's Champions

Women are empowered in this field. They can no longer have inequality in a workplace where women are bound to stereotyped roles; without a doubt, the time comes for a woman to lead and give rise as well.

1. Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)

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Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie as STEM woman, was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.

Marie Curie is well-known for she is remembered in discovering radium and polonium, along with creating significant contributions to the invention of cancer treatments.

The only woman who won two Nobel Prizes in two different fields: one is for Physics in 1903 and one is for Chemistry in 1911.

2. Fe del Mundo (1911-2011)

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Fe Villanueva del Mundo, OLD ONS GCGH, was a Filipina pediatrician. She founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines, and she was awarded the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines as well as the Order of Lakandula, one of the highest honors given by the Philippines.

She was the first woman admitted to Harvard Medical School in 1936 over ten years before the school officially began admitting women.

3. Encarnación A. Alzona (1895 - 2001)

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Encarnación A. Alzona was a pioneering Filipino historian, educator, and suffragist. She was the first Filipino woman to obtain a Ph. D., and she was task named National Scientist of the Philippines in 1985

Aside from being one of the country's leading suffragists who advocate for women's right to vote. Her writings during this time period helped boost social and political support for women's suffrage, which was finally granted in 1937. She was without a doubt one of the greatest Filipinos to have ever lived.