Eileen Guppy

[1][2] For the next two years, she worked as a research assistant to Leonard Hawkes at Bedford College and published the paper A Composite Dyke from Eastern Iceland in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.

Despite her qualifications, she spent many years working in roles subordinate to her male counterparts due in large part to the prevalent gender biases at the time.

[1] Guppy published her field work in 1924 under the title of A Composite Dyke from Eastern Iceland, which she formed while partnered with geologist Leonard Hawkes.

[1] While working for the Director Sir John Flett, she made a significant contribution to the book The First Hundred Years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, published in 1937.

[1][10] Alongside her scientific partner Leonard Hawkes, Guppy composed a case study on the composite dykes in eastern Iceland in the year of 1924.

Although Hawkes conducted the field work himself, Guppy played a crucial role in assisting and co-operating with deciphering the commonly occurring composite dykes in the tertiary plateau-basalt series of the respective area studied.

[1] Following her retirement Guppy was also the first woman to receive an MBE from the Order of the British Empire in 1966, for her 39 years of contributions which made her a significant figure in feminist history.

This shift was due largely to the founding of female post-secondary institutions a few decades prior, such as Bedford College where Guppy attended, vacancies in scientific positions as a result of WWII, and the first-wave feminist movement, which prompted organizations to step towards accepting women as equals with their male counterparts in the workplace.