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Science is a group of fields where women are in a significant minority. Some subfields of science, most famously biological and medical sciences, are beginning to approach gender parity or even become female dominated, although this is not necessarily true at all career stages.

Issues

Incidents

Notable female scientists

Physics

Chemistry

  • Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin

Biology and related fields

  • Anita Roberts
  • Barbara McClintock
  • Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • Linda B. Buck
  • Rita Levi-Montalcini (neurologist)
  • Rosalind Franklin (bio-physicist)
  • Gertrude B. Elion (bio-chemist)
  • Gerty Theresa Cori (bio-chemist)

Astronomy, astrophysics, etc

  • Caroline Moore, youngest person to discover a supernova (age 14)
  • Maria Mitchell
  • Annie Jump Cannon
  • Henrietta Swan Leavitt
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Caroline Herschel
  • Margaret Geller

Computer scientists

See Computer Science.

Further reading