girlinalabcoat: Let’s play a game of Where’s the...

girlinalabcoat:

Let’s play a game of Where’s the Woman…

Pictured above is the MIT Chemistry Lab staff at the turn of the 20th century, where Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards sits among her male peers. She was a trailblazer for women in the sciences - her ‘firsts’ include:

First woman admitted to MIT,

First woman professor at MIT,

First woman accepted to a science and tech university in America,

First woman to earn a chemistry degree (Vassar).

I highly recommend pursuing her Wikipedia article, she is a very inspiring woman in science!

(h/t to +MIT)