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women in science

A black and white photo showing three scientists in an old looking laboratory.
Science
Why history’s most famous scientists are usually a bit weird
Hedy Lamarr
Arts
How actress Hedy Lamarr became the ‘mother of Wi-Fi’
Rachel Ignotofsky
Books
Fighting the STEM gender gap with stories of trailblazing female scientists
Legal justice team
Culture
A ‘LEGO provocateur’ pushes the company to add female characters
Research assistant Georgina Bowyer works on a vaccine for Ebola at the Jenner Institute in Oxford, England, on January 16, 2015.
Science
Science isn’t just ‘boys with toys,’ and these ‘girls’ can prove it
Jean Jennings Bartik (left) and Frances Bilas Spence (right) were part of a team of six women who programmed the ENIAC.
Technology
Finding the forgotten women who programmed the world’s first electronic computer
Lawrence Summers, former US treasury secretary and Harvard president, ignited a firestorm on gender issues a decade ago this month.
Culture
Larry Summers ‘may have done a service to women’ with his sexist remarks
Staff from the Indian Space Research Organization celebrate at the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network in Bangalore after their Mars Orbiter spacecraft successfully entered Mars orbit on September 24, 2014.
Science
Women are the face of India’s Mars mission, but they’re still the exception