I was trying to find books that talked about the women as people, instead of focusing solely on the science and only mentioning in passing that the researchers were women. (Also try here on wikipedia: Women in Science.)īatgrl wrote: 'I'd love to like this list, but the problem I have is that some of the selections are great, and some don't seem to belong at all - or at least make it hard to figure out exactly where the women an.' Written by Herself will definitely give you a better place to look further. Which is sad, because there are actually a lot of good books on women in the sciences out there. After reading the plots of a few others I just gave up on looking up more. Atlas Shrugged is also a completely weird choice, as I've never heard anyone call Dagny Taggart a scientist (and I can't remember other women besides her, mainly because it was a book I never managed to finish). I have in mind some of the fiction here.) For instance, in the plot summary of Double Helix, I don't see any women scientists. (And I'm not talking about Henrietta Lacks, that book does need to be on many lists. To me that means women who are scientists and have done research, not just women who are somehow related to a science. I'd love to like this list, but the problem I have is that some of the selections are great, and some don't seem to belong at all - or at least make it hard to figure out exactly where the women and the science are.

30 Days by Joanna Tilsley