Today's Google Doodle celebrated the 131st birth anniversary of
Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, one of the first women engineers in the world.
Zamfirescu was the first female member of the General Association of Romanian
Engineers (AGIR) and ran laboratories for the Geological Institute of Romania.
She oversaw several economic studies that analysed Romania's supply of natural
resources like coal, shale, natural gas, chromium, bauxite and copper. Her
country honoured her by naming a street after her in the capital city of
Bucharest in 1993.
However, Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu
faced many obstacles on her road to pursue her education and career. Born in
the Romanian port city of Galati, she graduated with high marks from the
Central School of Girls in Bucharest and earned a baccalaureate from the Mihai
Vieazul High School. But, when she applied to the School of Highways and
Bridges in Bucharest, she was rejected on the basis of her gender. Women
engineers were almost unheard of that time, with Irish Alice Perry graduating
just six years before Zamfirescu to become the first ever female engineer in
the world.
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