I'm a woman and a science student. Traditionally women were not into science because lets see THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED to be educated in the same way as men. I bring to ur attention Nobel prize winner Barbera McClintock.
She couldn't study a graduate course in genetics in her university because they didn't take female students, even though she already had achieved a degree. She worked in the universitiy's labs and achieved many great discoveries with her team and got her PhD in 1927, but because she was a she, there was litte hope of her attaining a position as a lecturer at that university she already worked at. A friend of hers asked another uni to give her an assistant professorship they accepted and she started work in 1936. But she was left out of academic activities the other staff could attend. But in 1951 she was an accepted scientist figure until she proposed the transposable elements (genes that moved) theory she had been working on. People didn't believe her but then as technology grew someone else rediscovered what she had found, she finally got recognition for her amazing discovery in the 70's but got the Nobel prize in 1983. 35 years after her original paper.
Compare that story to Watson and Crick. They used someone elses Xray diffraction patterns (1 of them was a woman) to deciphur the double helix structure of DNA, in 1953. and they got the Nobel Prize in 1953. Ofcourse there's was a much more important discovery but it still shows the point.
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