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Mary Seacole, Jamaican-born woman of Scottish and Creole descent who set up a "British hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War; Jean Springer, Jamaican mathematics professor; Garth Taylor, Jamaican ophthalmologist, professor, and humanitarian; Manley West, Jamaican pharmacologist who developed a treatment for glaucoma
This is a list of women artists who were born in Jamaica or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
A Classic Study of the History of Caribbean Women, a review of Lucille Mathurin Mair's A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655–1844. Kingston: University of the West Indies Press, 2006. 496 pp., ISBN 978-976-640-166-5 (cloth); ISBN 978-976-640-178-8 (paper). RECONSTRUCTING BLACK WOMEN'S HISTORY IN THE CARIBBEAN, JSTOR.org.
This is a list of Jamaican women writers, including women writers either from or associated with Jamaica This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
It includes women activists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Jamaican women activists" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Jamaica is the first English-speaking country in the Caribbean to achieve universal adult suffrage and grant women the right to be elected to Parliament. [1] Between 1944 and 2020, a total of 47 women have been elected as members of the House of Representatives.
To her many achievements, including being the wealthiest Jamaican-born woman ever, the 46-year-old entrepreneur just added the release of a memoir, “Unbroken: The Triumphant Story of a Woman’s ...
[50] [51] Fraser-Pryce's winning time made her the joint third fastest woman in history at the time, and shaved one-hundredth of a second from Merlene Ottey's Jamaican record. [ 37 ] [ 50 ] With the victory, she also joined Gail Devers of the U.S. as the second woman to hold the 100 m Olympic and world titles simultaneously (a feat she ...
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