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Clay cuneiform tablet showing an astronomical diary from 331BC

Gendered Observation: The Contribution of Women to the Astronomical Diaries of Mesopotamia

By Lady ScienceMay 16, 2019

By E. L. Meszaros

Woodcut from Les oeuvres d’Ambroise Paré showing a woman with a snake-like creature inside her.

How Careful She Must Be: Midwives, Maternal Minds, and Monstrous Births

By Lady ScienceMay 16, 2019

By Sara Ray

Woodcut of Electric Arc Lights

“I do wish mother had a boudoir:” Hertha Ayrton’s Home Laboratory

By Lady ScienceApril 18, 2019

By Emily Doucet

Two peacocks.

Also Evolving: The Language of Sexism in Biological Anthropology

By Lady ScienceApril 18, 2019

By Amanda Rossillo

Black and white print of dancing skeletons

“The men will not do it”: 19th Century Sex Work and Reform

By Lady ScienceApril 18, 2019

By Robert Davis

Human computers, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Remembering the Women of the Mathematical Tables Project

By Lady ScienceMarch 14, 2019

By Joy Lisi Rankin

Model of a contraceptive pill, Europe, c. 1970.

Hysterical Housewives, Radical Feminists, and The Gendering of Expertise About The Pill

By Lady ScienceMarch 14, 2019

By Chris ChoGlueck

Croasdale in her office.

To Respect a Ghost: Remembering Women Pioneers as They Wanted

By Lady ScienceMarch 14, 2019

By Caroline Cook

Arapaho family in front of a teepee at 1904 World's Fair

Specimen Days: Human Zoos at the 1904 World’s Fair

By Lady ScienceFebruary 14, 2019

By Erica Eisen

Physical education class at Nelson College for Girls. 1913

The Origins of American Women’s Exercise

By Lady ScienceFebruary 14, 2019

By Jess Libow

Weaving loom via Pixabay

Ethel Mairet: A Pioneer of Weaving Technology

By Lady ScienceJanuary 17, 2019

By Tamara Fernando

Great white shark Dyer Island [Wikimedia Commons | CC]

We’re Gonna Need A Better Script: Uneven Representation of Women Scientists in Shark Films

By Lady ScienceJanuary 17, 2019

By Sam Muka

Young chimps taking care of each other (2019) by Tambako the Jaguar (Flickr | CC BY.ND 2.0

Radical Science, Feminism, and the Biology of Determinism

By Lady ScienceDecember 20, 2018

By Jenna Tonn

HeLa cells infected with Type-A Chlamydia trachomatis by Joe Miller (Public Health Image Library | Public Domain)

Selective Blindness: Ida Bengtson and the Treatment of Trachoma

By Lady ScienceDecember 20, 2018

By Kate Sheppard

Donna Strickland as a graduate student at the University of Rochester (1985) (Wikimedia Commons)

The Myth of Meritocracy in Academic Publishing

By Lady ScienceDecember 20, 2018

By Sam Muka

Maria Montessori (ca. 1910-1915). (Library of Congress via George Grantham Bain Collection | No restrictions apply)

Dr. Maria Montessori, Feminist

By Lady ScienceNovember 15, 2018

By Joy Lisi Rankin