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Lady Science

is a multifaceted collaborative writing project focused on women in science, technology, and medicine. Their purpose is to highlight women's lives and contributions to scientific fields, to critique representations of women in history and popular culture, and to provide an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web.

Clay cuneiform tablet showing an astronomical diary from 331BC
Lady Science

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

By Lady ScienceMay 16, 2019
By Sara Ray
Woodcut of Electric Arc Lights
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“I do wish mother had a boudoir:” Hertha Ayrton’s Home Laboratory

By Lady ScienceApril 18, 2019
By Emily Doucet
Two peacocks.
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Also Evolving: The Language of Sexism in Biological Anthropology

By Lady ScienceApril 18, 2019
By Amanda Rossillo
Black and white print of dancing skeletons
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“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.
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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.
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Hysterical Housewives, Radical Feminists, and The Gendering of Expertise About The Pill

By Lady ScienceMarch 14, 2019
By Chris ChoGlueck
Croasdale in her office.
Lady Science

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
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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
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The Origins of American Women’s Exercise

By Lady ScienceFebruary 14, 2019
By Jess Libow
Weaving loom via Pixabay
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Ethel Mairet: A Pioneer of Weaving Technology

By Lady ScienceJanuary 17, 2019
By Tamara Fernando
Great white shark Dyer Island [Wikimedia Commons | CC]
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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
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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)
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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)
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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

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