Lady Science – The New Inquiry

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

By Lady ScienceMay 16, 2019

By E. L. Meszaros

Clay cuneiform tablet showing an astronomical diary from 331BC

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

By Lady ScienceMay 16, 2019

By Sara Ray

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

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

By Lady ScienceApril 18, 2019

By Emily Doucet

Woodcut of Electric Arc Lights

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Also Evolving: The Language of Sexism in Biological Anthropology

By Lady ScienceApril 18, 2019

By Amanda Rossillo

Two peacocks.

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

By Lady ScienceApril 18, 2019

By Robert Davis

Black and white print of dancing skeletons

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Remembering the Women of the Mathematical Tables Project

By Lady ScienceMarch 14, 2019

By Joy Lisi Rankin

Human computers, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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

By Lady ScienceMarch 14, 2019

By Chris ChoGlueck

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

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To Respect a Ghost: Remembering Women Pioneers as They Wanted

By Lady ScienceMarch 14, 2019

By Caroline Cook

Croasdale in her office.

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

By Lady ScienceFebruary 14, 2019

By Erica Eisen

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

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The Origins of American Women’s Exercise

By Lady ScienceFebruary 14, 2019

By Jess Libow

Physical education class at Nelson College for Girls. 1913

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Ethel Mairet: A Pioneer of Weaving Technology

By Lady ScienceJanuary 17, 2019

By Tamara Fernando

Weaving loom via Pixabay

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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

Great white shark Dyer Island [Wikimedia Commons | CC]

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Radical Science, Feminism, and the Biology of Determinism

By Lady ScienceDecember 20, 2018

By Jenna Tonn

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

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Selective Blindness: Ida Bengtson and the Treatment of Trachoma

By Lady ScienceDecember 20, 2018

By Kate Sheppard

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

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The Myth of Meritocracy in Academic Publishing

By Lady ScienceDecember 20, 2018

By Sam Muka

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

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Cell Culture and Science Culture

By Lady ScienceNovember 15, 2018

By Alicia Puglionesi

Oocyte with Zona pellucida by ZEISS Microscopy. (Flikr | CC BY-SA 2.0CC)

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