Genuinely though, what was your answer to the third question?
Like me, could you muster up only the very clichéd (but deservedly iconic) Marie Curie?
To further test this, I even asked a bunch of actual women in science within my own circle. What does it say when even female engineers and doctors cannot come up with five names?
Does it matter though- aren't inventions more important to remember than the inventers? Maybe from a ~purely~ scientific standpoint. But from a social lens, our education irredeemably fails us when we can rattle off not only names but backstories of Einstein, Newton, Galileo, Graham Bell and Wright Brothers without a thought, but we struggle with the former.
It's gives birth to all those narratives about how one particular gender just naturally has more of an aptitude towards STEM, or has contributed towards all landmark scientific discoveries and inventions when the truth is that- get this- inspite of categorically being denied admission to universities, funding for research and facing active pressure to not intrude upon 'men's work', these fifty women (amongst so many others) managed to make major substantial, tangible contributions to science. I won't even go into the less obvious obstacles in their paths- think being the only girl in a batch of boys, lack of support systems, pressure to 'stop playing truant and settle down', and you can imagine the rest.
So read this book. KNOW THOSE NAMES. And make representation natural so that your daughters, younger sisters, nieces, students, readers, audience- anyone who has the potential and interest to pursue the scientific path does not doubt herself or her place in the field because of lack of exposure and role models. And read it for yourself, because it's inspirational, educational and revelatory. It's what you would have wanted to read in your teens. But you never even knew.
And to top it off, the fifty profiles are also beautifully illustrated with tid bits of odd, personal or relatable factoids of these women in science- these women who found love, friendship, purpose and joy in their lives along with and very often because of their career choices.
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