Sheila Minor was a biological research technician who went on to a 35-year-long scientific career
By drawing out hidden connections, Tilly Edinger joined the fields of geology and neurology
Collecting the stories of women who forever changed the course of the American story
By blending education and activism, Zonia Baber made geography a means of uniting—not conquering—the globe
Kono Yasui was the first Japanese woman to publish in an academic journal, forging a new path for women in her country
How a preacher with no scientific training ended up writing the first feminist critique of <em>Origins</em>
Harriot Hunt refused to let her gender limit her ambitions—or those of the next generation of physicians
Mamie Phipps Clark came up with the oft-cited "doll test" and provided expert testimony in Brown v. Board of Education
A new book documents the triumphs and challenges of more than 10,000 women who worked behind the scenes of wartime intelligence
Reducing India’s emissions will take more than science—it will take a new paradigm of de-colonialism, says Sunita Narain
Ananabai Joshee dedicated her career to treating women and helped blaze a path for international doctors training in the U.S.
Anna Morandi was the brains and the skilled hand of an unusual husband-wife partnership
Maria Mitchell, America's first female astronomer, flourished at a time when both sexes “swept the sky”
Despite having no formal mathematical training, she was a key figure in creating the computer that would later launch modern weather prediction
How the United States escaped a national tragedy in the 1960s
Naomi Weisstein fought against the idea of women as objects in both the fields of psychology and rock 'n roll
Astronomer Maria Cunitz might not be such an anomaly, were other women given the same educational opportunities
As one of five American women in this role, Heather Wilson blends aviation and birds to bolster climate change records
The're more likely to assume that someone who is 'very, very smart' is male, new research finds
Journey to the Center of Earth
Marie Tharp's maps helped prove continental drift was real. But her work was initially dismissed as "girl talk"
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