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
- Lawrence Summers statements on women in science
- Invisible Woman -- a female science professor is ignored by a distinguished visitor.
- Distinguished schmuck visits, misbehaves -- response to the previous link, with notes for allies.
- Sports Illustrated interviews Summer Williams -- Williams is an aerospace engineer and also a cheerleader; she said she hadn't realized she could inspire anyone until she volunteered at a summer cheerleading program
Notable female scientists
Physics
- Marie Curie
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer
- Lise Meitner
- Lisa Randall
Chemistry
- Irene Joliot-Curie
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- 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
- Girls take top honours at national science contest (Feministing)
- Women in Science: Leaky pipes, glass ceilings and slippery slopes (European Professional Women's Network)