32 Posters of Badass Women in Science to Inspire Girls Today
“At the end of the day we re standing on the shoulders of giants, and most of these women are lost.
Open the pages of a science book, or skim through a Google search for notable scientists, and a sea of white males dominate the lists of award-winners, accomplishments, and imagery.
Now, imagine a world where every young classroom had a poster of Chen-Shiung Wu, the “First Lady of Physics,” who was born in a time when girls in China were not allowed to attend school, or Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 1977 Nobel Peace Prize winner for her work in radioimmunoassay, who began as secretary because she didn’t believe a graduate school would support her studies.