Women and science - Topics

Fighting to get a female name added to a discovery that was credited to a man Why was the discovery of nuclear fission credited to Hahn and not to Lise Meitner Female computers at observatories did the calculations that made the discoveries possible Why we still say female scientist when we never say male scientist The first woman in science is a question with no stable answer Women's household recipe books turn out to be a serious archive for early modern science The girls who were steered away from physics in school and what happened to them Emilie du Chatelet translated Newton and added the energy term that mattered World War lab vacancies that put women in research posts and then took the posts back The Matilda effect: women's discoveries credited to male colleagues Industrial labs hired women during both world wars and let most of them go afterwards The first woman admitted to a national academy and the fight that got her in Textbooks named the theorem after the man who published it first Forgetting Rosalind Franklin's contribution to the double helix in a chemistry lecture How stereotypes about who belongs in a lab shape who stays in one Ada Lovelace and the difference between writing an algorithm and building the machine