Elsie MacGill

thumb|Elsie MacGill in 1938 Elizabeth Muriel Gregory MacGill (March 27, 1905 – November 4, 1980) was a Canadian engineer and feminist activist who was the first woman in North America to earn an aeronautical engineering degree, the first female aircraft designer in the world, and the first Canadian woman to earn a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. She was described as the "Queen of the Hurricanes" for her work to produce the Hawker Hurricane aircraft in Canada during the Second World War. Quotes I have received many engineering awards, but I hope I will also be remembered as an advocate for the rights of women and children. "Elizabeth "Elsie" Gregory MacGill". collectionscanada.ca. War effort is a man staying and working an extra hour, or two or five hours a day. It is a woman cutting short her noon hour to get back to finish the job; it is someone taking home his problems to solve them after dinner; it is someone coming back in the evening to finish an assignment. War effort is something, which is as microscopic in the unit as the individual, but as mighty in the sum total as an army. "Elizabeth "Elsie" Gregory MacGill". CBC. Engineering in industry holds out the greatest promise for any engineer. Industry in the main is progressive; energy and initiative are rewarded in terms of salary and advancement, and advancement may be very rapid. Convention and public opinion exert little pressure* "Elizabeth "Elsie" Gregory MacGill". Archive.org Management is more concerned with problems of work and costs than the social question of the sex of the engineer.] "Elizabeth "Elsie" Gregory MacGill". Archive.org External links Elsie MacGill Category:1905 births Category:1980 deaths Category:Aerospace engineers Category:Officers of the Order of Canada Category:Women engineers from Canada Category:Women scientists from Canada