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Read Lab Coats and Lace recently, an interesting book on Women scientists. Written this year there are still some of them that point out that while, yes, she was a successful scientist, she still kept house and baked cookies. Thankfully there was at least one who was remarkable (in the authors mind at least) for lacking domesticity. It's written by several authors so sometimes the stories have different stresses. There are a few written by "daughter" scientists.
I have to wonder, having been a scientist for a short while, or at least a science student in college for a while, if some women who were forced to hide behind a beard, if they actually enjoyed some of the freedom of devoting themselves to science instead of being interrupted by lectures and students. I know several scientists who would have loved to have someone else deal with the tedium (in their minds I'm sure) and stress of lecturing and just get on with the "real work". Still these women worked with their dreams., forged a path to say "yes I can follow my dreams", while they may not have fought as hard as I might have liked them to they pulled the rug from under people who said women couldn't do these things.
If I had to single out one woman among them it would be Dr Dorothy Stopford Price. A woman who fought the opposition of the Rev Dr John Charles McQuaid (the then Catholic Archbishop of Dublin) to give most Irish people a pair of scars on their upper arm. (Stop rubbing them) She tested the BCG vaccination in St Ultan's Hospital (now the Charlemont Clinic) to create enough clinical evidence that it should be used as a mass vaccination. She first imported it in 1937. The book even reproduces her licence from Sean T O'Ceallaigh to do so.
Read Lab Coats and Lace recently, an interesting book on Women scientists. Written this year there are still some of them that point out that while, yes, she was a successful scientist, she still kept house and baked cookies. Thankfully there was at least one who was remarkable (in the authors mind at least) for lacking domesticity. It's written by several authors so sometimes the stories have different stresses. There are a few written by "daughter" scientists.
I have to wonder, having been a scientist for a short while, or at least a science student in college for a while, if some women who were forced to hide behind a beard, if they actually enjoyed some of the freedom of devoting themselves to science instead of being interrupted by lectures and students. I know several scientists who would have loved to have someone else deal with the tedium (in their minds I'm sure) and stress of lecturing and just get on with the "real work". Still these women worked with their dreams., forged a path to say "yes I can follow my dreams", while they may not have fought as hard as I might have liked them to they pulled the rug from under people who said women couldn't do these things.
If I had to single out one woman among them it would be Dr Dorothy Stopford Price. A woman who fought the opposition of the Rev Dr John Charles McQuaid (the then Catholic Archbishop of Dublin) to give most Irish people a pair of scars on their upper arm. (Stop rubbing them) She tested the BCG vaccination in St Ultan's Hospital (now the Charlemont Clinic) to create enough clinical evidence that it should be used as a mass vaccination. She first imported it in 1937. The book even reproduces her licence from Sean T O'Ceallaigh to do so.