Bella Keyzer

Isabella "Bella" Keyzer born Isabella Mitchell (29 August 1922 – 18 July 1992) was a Scottish weaver who became a welder and shipyard worker. Following the Sex Discrimination Act in 1975 she returned to her wartime occupation as a welder in the Scottish shipyards. She is recognised as an icon for women's equality.

Life Keyzer was born in Dundee in 1922. She was the last of three children born to Isabella (born Campbell) and Thomas Mitchell. Her mother worked as a cleaner and in confectionary and her father was a foreman in a bakery and he had been married before. The family of five lived in two rooms but her home had a good supply of books. Their parents had given her brother the middle name of Lenin. Her father was an active trade unionist She married Dirk Keyzer on 1 November 1949