Taking to the Field: A History of Australian Women in Science

by Jane Carey

If asked to name an Australian woman scientist from the past, very few could. Let's change that. Histories of Australian science largely overlook women. Their absence gives the impression that, until recently, there were no Australian women scientists. But this is far from true: women formed a much larger proportion of the scientific community from the 1900s to the 1940s in Australia than in Britain or the United States, and numbers have only grown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1925835413
• ISBN13: 9781925835410
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: National Library of Australia
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"