to see what i m saying that the problem is alive and well? it s funny because if you go and look at the statistics and numbers look great. there are tens of women entering science. .. after my friend lots of examples we can find like i was in brussels once for summer school and there was a girl from austria and i said the restrooms are looking sold like maybe 150 years in brussels it was a huge complex. i was surprised and the lady next to me said well, you re glad at least the have a women s restroom. i said what do you mean? she said i m the only woman in whole institute so they don t have a restroom for women. heidi hughes the men s restroom. i was like okay. thank you for sharing that. i feel very who thrilled. i was always thinking behind my mind there should be such a book. i was thinking of writing one myself. [laughter] thank you. you were painting a picture of a historical trend and the influence of a feminist move into the science but then i have diffi
of the first three chapters of the book have to deal with and the first chapter of this book is about madame curie. why are we talking about madame curie? mechem madame curie comes to the united states in the 1920 s and the reason she comes is remember she had discovered radium, the radioactivity, the problem was she didn t patent it considers these american chemical producers making all of this money on a region and she can t even afford this much of it so that she could do her own research. so she talks to this publicist in the united states aimed missy maloney and she helps her up because what she does is start a campaign and all of these american women are going to raise money so that madame curie can have her reading them so i tell the story about this campaign. what is so funny about this, this little tiny campion says everything about not just how american women are getting defined in the period but also help american science is getting defined because she comes to the
that is amazing, and right now i just started quote koza help which is different, it s fiction. i don t normally read fiction but it s a good read. the author is pamela newkirk, the author of quote collectors from black america. thank you. thank you. .. you might ask, or you might not, you might know the answer, why do we need a women writing science series? the answer is of course that women still are not encouraged by their teachers to enter the scientific field and to stay there, which is really important , retention. that they are not promoted as much. they don t get the best jobs, they don t get the best grades. this is still, by many years of activism on women s part, something that is consistent throughout the scientific field. so, the feminist press, we put together a project and that to project directors are here, florence howe who is the founder of the press, and surely it was the program director of the whole science project, which also has a web site called