"Although by all accounts the period 1940–72 was a golden age for science in America, it has generally been considered a very dark age for women in the professions. ... How could this have been? Were not women an integral part of American science by 1940? Why, then, in a period of record growth in almost every aspect of American science that one could count—money spent, persons trained, jobs created, articles published, even s won—were women so invisible?"
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(584 pages; 1st edition 1995; quote from p. xv)
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Margaret W. Rossiter
(July 8, 1944 – August 3, 2025) was an American historian of science. She was awarded in 2022 the .
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