An app that can signal where a woman made a historic achievement is being developed.

Women on the Map is aimed at 13- to 22-year-olds and hopes to address the lack of recognition and honours for women.

It is being developed by the Spark Movement, a collective of about 30 women under the age of 23, and included in Google’s Field Trip app.

The stories of about 100 women have been included in the app so far.

They include the famous, such as entertainer Josephine Baker, whose location is the Paris concert hall where she gave one of her most famous performances, wearing a skirt made of bananas, in 1925.

One of the less known women featured is Mary Anning, a renowned fossilist who discovered fossils of a Plesiosaurus in 1823. Users who have the app on their smartphone will get a notification when they visit Lyme Regis in Dorset, close to where she found the fossil.

Another is Mary Ellen Pleasant from San Francisco. Born a slave, she went on to become an activist and abolitionist known as the mother of civil rights in California.

Spark wants to include far more women in the app and is seeking short biographies of women (who cannot still be alive) and their achievements, along with a photograph. They can be sent to sparkteam@sparksummit.com