For many centuries, as far back as the Greek city-states, men dominated and still are the majority in the fields of scientific and mathematical research. The most prominent researchers the public tends to remember and recognize are Albert Einstein and Pythagoras, respective to their area of study. Meanwhile, the humanities, art, and language received its greatest expansion due to women, albeit an increased number of significant men that chose those fields rather than females choosing the sciences.
Some areas do not receive equal cross-gender representation result due to multiple probable origins. One of the primary reasons is that universities excluded women from access to an education and some areas due to the social culture. Not until the creation of the pro-women organization, NOW, did a change spark in women to pursue their innate dreams …show more content…
For instance, Marie Curie, Polish-French physicist and chemist, faced significant obstacles to receiving access and recognition to her fields, in which she pioneered the study of radioactivity when discovering two new elements, Radium and Polonium. Curie’s legacy remains as the first person and only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences, Chemistry and …show more content…
For example, in my own education and life, my former Math 4 Honors teacher, Lisa Heinl, is a female with a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Mathematics Education, teaches an AP Calculus course and holds the position of the “Chair of the Mathematics