Women are rising to the fore as their potential is finally being recognised
Science, while assumed to be dispassionate and rational, has long been implicated in the oppression of women.
Britain’s Royal Society of scientists (BRS) barred women for almost 300 years, on the grounds that women were not “legal persons”. The first women were admitted in 1945. Not even history’s famous female scientist, Marie Curie, was recognised. The French Academy of Sciences, the equivalent of BRS, rejected her application for membership. Harvard University refused to award her an honorary degree. These rejections came despite Curie being the first woman to win a Nobel prize and the only person, male or female, to win Nobel prizes for physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911. ..
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