Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male. (Margaret Wertheim)

Female physicists, astronomers and mathematicians are up against more than 2,000 years of convention that has long portrayed these fields as inherently male.

Margaret Wertheim

Related topics

convention female male years fields

Related quotes

I think marriage is primarily about children, main purpose being to propagate & create environment for children to grow up. Its a good policy for society to support male/female marriage imo. View quote
Lucinda Creighton
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery. View quote
Will Cuppy
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female. View quote
Rose Tremain
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it. View quote
George Eliot