@ColinTheMathmo @antoinechambertloir @e7_87 as somebody else mentioned here and elsewhere, Sophie Germain would be a perfect example for what you are trying to do if you connect her to Gauss, and bring up questions about why she pretends to be a man (even if you question whether or not Gauss would have listened to her had he known she was a woman).
I also think there is value in doing cross generational discussions (as I mentioned Pingala made discoveries that were replicated 1400 and 1800 years later by Fibonacci and Pascal) why is there attribution to Fibonacci and Pascal, and like Antoine has pointed out there are sociological reasons for this.
There are parallels between the lives of Hypatia, Maria Gaetana Agnesi and Ada Lovelace, but then there are also extreme dissimilarities between their lives.
You can mention Queen Dido and her solution to the isoperimetroc problem in the foundation of the city of Carthage. This connects to Virgil’s Aeneid.
You can also compare the lives of Sofya Kolavskeya and Maria Chudnovsky where there are parallels (born in Russia/Soviet Union, both left the country to pursue a higher degree, both made groundbreaking advances to a problem that had been open for many years) yet they were born a little over one hundred years and the conditions for the recognition of mathematic talent amongst women had changed (their lives have been completely different in many other aspects).
Somebody mentioned Ada Lovelace, her story has many connections to the beginnings of computer science, she was the daughter of Lord Byron, who was instrumental in the stories surrounding the creations of horror icons such as Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster.