History of Gender in Science Education

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    Caroline Herschel

    Herschel was the first women to discover a comet and is well-known for her work in astronomy. She and Mary Somerville were the first women to be named honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society. Source
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    Mary Somerville

    Somerville is known for her work with magnestism and her writings on astronomy, chemisty, physics and mathematics. She and Caroline Herschel were the first women to be named honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society. Source
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    Maria Mitchell

    Mitchell is known for her work in astronomy, and became the first female astronomy professor in the U.S. Source

  • Troy Female Seminary opened by Emma Willard

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    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Blackwell was the first woman to become a doctor, and is well-known for her work for women's rights. Source

  • Oberlin College founded in 1833

  • Mount Holyoke Female Semiary School opened

  • First Law to Require Public Elementary Education in MA

  • "Gray's Antomy" is Published

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    Marie Curie

    Marie Curie was well-known for her work in radiation research and was the first women to win the Nobel Prize in 1903 for physics and in 1911 for chemisty. Source
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    Lise Meitner

    Meitner is well-known for her work on nuclear fission, including naming the phenomenon after calculating the energy released within the reaction. Source

  • Opening of Bryn Mawr College

  • Opening of Lilly Hall of Science at Smith College

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    Irene Curie-Joliot

    Curie-Joliet was the eldest daughter of Marie Curie. She is well-known for her work in chemisty, for which she won the Nobel Prize for in 1934. Source
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    Barbara McClintock

    McClintock is well-known for her work on "jumping genes" for which she was awarded the Lasker Prize in 1981 and the Nobel Prize in 1983. Source
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    Rachel Carson

    Carson was a marine biologist, who was well known for her writings. Her book, "Silent Spring," on the dangers of DDT and other pesticides, lead the banning of such chemicals in the U.S. Source
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    Dorothy Hodgkin

    Hodgkin was well-known for her work in x-ray crystallography, which she was awared the Nobel Prize for in 1964. Source
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    Gertrude Elion

    Elion is known for her work on chemotherapy drugs to fight leukemia in children. She won the Nobel Prize in 1988 for her work in medicine. Source

  • Commission on the Reorganization of Secondary Education

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    Rosalind Franklin

    Franlin's x-ray crystallography of DNA was key to the discovery of it's structure. Watson and Crick received the nobel prize for its discovery in 1962. Franklin died in 1958 due to ovarian cancer. Source
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    Jane Goodall

    Goodall is the world's foremost primatologist and is well-known for her work with Gombe Chimpanzees in Tanzania. She continues to work on animal conservation and her research to this day. Source

  • Women's Education Equity Act

  • Title IX of the Federal Education Ammendments