BORN 1934 INDUCTED 2015 CATEGORY Community / Social Work THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Pioneering social worker and advocate of children’s rights Janet Yee Keng Luan is a pioneer social worker who championed the right of abandoned babies...
BORN 1941 INDUCTED 2015 CATEGORY Media & Entertainment THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Kartina Dahari The Queen of Keroncong Kartina Dahari was an award-winning Malay singer who was known as the “Queen of Keroncong, a traditional Malay...
BORN 1907 INDUCTED 2015 CATEGORY Arts & Culture THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Chua Jim Neo Author of the definitive Mrs Lee’s Cookbook Chua Jim Neo, better known as Mrs Lee Chin Koon, wrote her definitive Mrs Lee’s Cookbook in 1974...
BORN 1902 INDUCTED 2015 CATEGORY Arts & Culture THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Ellice Handy Culinary pioneer and educator Ellice Handy, whose entire life was associated with Methodist Girls’ School (MGS), wrote the first Singaporean...
BORN 1936 INDUCTED 2015 CATEGORY Advocacy & Activism THE HONOURED INDUCTEES TO THE SINGAPORE WOMEN’S HALL OF FAME Champion of civil society Constance Singam came late to activism, only getting involved, slowly, after she was widowed in 1978 at the age of 42. For...
