This document discusses the lives and accomplishments of numerous influential women in science from the early 20th century to present day. It provides biographical details and highlights the contributions of pioneers like Rachel Carson, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, and Jane Goodall. Later sections profile contemporary leaders such as Bonnie Bassler, Elizabeth Blackburn, and Rosette Colony Formation who continue advancing scientific knowledge in their fields.

2.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP
ZEHW71EnQ
 Sex identification (gender and sexual
dimorphism)
 Utopian communities – live on largely in
the products they produced: Oneida
silverware, Amana refrigeration
(appliances), Kellogg's cereal, Welch’s
grape juice, Shaker furniture

3.  Lives of women in (evolutionary) science
 Impediments and barriers
 Increasing role of higher education
 Scientific contributions
 The “evolving” role of women in science,
“evolving” feminism, and the future

4.  Born in 1907, graduated HS in 1925 and
women’s college (now Chatham
University) in 1929
 Entered Johns Hopkins in 1929, left with a
MS in 1932 (to financially support her
parents)
 1936 – second woman full-time at the
Bureau of Fisheries, as a junior aquatic
biologist

5.  She was assigned to write pamphlets
and radio pieces
 1951 The New Yorker – “The Sea Around
Us”
 Dorothy Freeman – neighbor and close
friend
 1962 Silent Spring – work delayed by
breast cancer, she died in 1964
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM
SEnIVFBQ0

6.  Born in 1908
 Studied mathematics and
philosophy at the
Sorbonne (9th woman, and
the youngest graduate)
 "One is not born, but rather
becomes, a woman“
 Wrote The Second Sex in
1949 – became the
manifesto of the women’s
movement
 Lifelong relationship with
Jean-Paul Sartre

7.  Born in 1921
 Graduated from
Smith College in 1938
 Attended UC Berkeley
 Active in journalism
from college
throughout her life
 Wrote The Feminine
Mystique (1963)
 https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=LwwzR
Dvkpsc

8.  Born in 1934
 Graduated from Smith College
 Worked as a journalist from 1960
 Founded Ms. Magazine
 Preached reproductive freedom
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zl5
qeF0aqs

9.  Her high school headmistress tried to
convince her that university education
was for men (around 1956)
 Attended Edinburgh University in
Scotland, where she graduated with a
degree in zoology in 1960
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc
M23M-CCog&feature=youtu.be

10.  Participate as equal partners in their
research – he began as her teaching
assistant
 Lived with their two daughters six months
per year on the island
 Both received the Bachelor degree in
1960; he received the PhD in 1964; she in
1985
 He is an emeritus professor; she is a
“retired senior research scholar”

12.  Received her PhD in 1963: Demonstrated
the presence of DNA in the chloroplasts of
Euglena gracilis
 Although not the first with the idea, she
collected the seminal data on evolution by
endosymbiosis or symbiogenesis
 Gaia hypothesis – with Lovelock
 Described variously as a courageous rebel,
or fruitfully wrong
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIXsKHI
ECAs

13.  Born in 1939
 PhD in 1968
 The Female Eunuch
 Preached sexual freedom
 Sex and Destiny – Greer argued
that the Western promotion of
birth control in the Third World
was in large part driven not by
concern for human welfare but
by the traditional fear and envy
of the rich towards the fertility of
the poor.
 https://www.youtube.com/watc
h?v=CvRZXj3TFNY

14.  Born in 1940
 Educated at Swarthmore
and UC Berkeley (PhD)
 The Second Shift -
"economy of gratitude“
 "stalled gender
revolution"
 Hochschild's work
combines critical theory,
ethnographic
observation, and a focus
on human emotion

15.  Born in 1947
 Nontraditional career
path included stints as
a Playboy Bunny, a
bar waitress, a jazz
musician, a carpenter
and dog trainer
 PhD from UCSD
 NIAID Section Head
 “Danger Hypothesis”
1994
 “in a world that
wanted all women to
be Betty Crocker, it
was the Playboy club
that wanted women
who could speak to
men as equals”

16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h
znyBtFKdM4

17.  Born in 1952
 Stanford U, BA 1973
 PhD UCSC 1983
 'Feminism is a movement to
end sexism, sexist
exploitation and oppression‘
 ‘the wounded child inside
many males is a boy who,
when he first spoke his truths,
was silenced by paternal
sadism, by a patriarchal
world that did not want him
to claim his true feelings’
 https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=j5ThEoA0ESA

18. Rosette Colony Formation Bio
 Born 1970
 Indiana University 1992
 PhD Harvard 1999
 Pew Scholar, MacArthur Genius award
 HHMI Investigator 2013
 How did multicellular organisms evolve?

19.  https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=JV
qxyYBuI_U
 Symbiosis (predator-prey
relationship
induces rosettes)
 Gene regulation