Women in STEM

and how we got there

Today I chaperoned my daughter’s field trip to a STEM event. When I was a child, I took for granted that girls and women were being targeted for careers in STEM fields. The push to bring women into that workforce had already begun, and the acknowledgement for how we got there was fading from public recognition, besides a few token women taught to schoolchildren. Looking at you Marie Curie.

There are countless women who dedicated their lives to bettering the world for us.

For my daughter to be welcomed at an event like that, past women fought to be allowed to read books, to go to school, to have careers, to be seen as equals in academics. Many of these women never saw things change in their lifetime.

Although I like to write about the struggles of women, the topic of women in STEM is something I haven’t focused enough on. Their stories need to be told. Some women on my ever growing list of topics I’d like to tell a horny little man about include Sati-un-Nisa, Mary Seacole, Kathleen Lonsdale, Helen Hamilton Gardener, Wangari Maathai and Caroline Eustis.

Let me know in the comments a woman in STEM you think everyone should hear about.

Here are some stories already told:

Mary Anning

Horny History: Mary Anning

Aletta Jacobs

Horny History: Aletta Jacobs

Madame Restell

Horny History: Madame Restell

Clarice Phelps (this one is modern day)

Horny History: Clarice Phelps