![]() ![]() These weren't safe jobs 200 women producing TNT died from poisoning or accidental explosions. From all walks of life, they began working in munitions factories, developing chemical weapons (at one point, 90 per cent of industrial chemists were women) and building war machinery, while male scientists were on the battlefield. It was the First World War that gave women unprecedented access to careers for which they had until then been deemed unsuitable. ![]() In A Lab of One's Own, the Cambridge historian Patricia Fara documents these scientists' stories, painting a picture of a world that clearly wanted to remain male. They weren't always high-profile campaigners, but by forcing open the gates to the male-dominated worlds of science and engineering they helped shed stereotypes about women's abilities. But what has been ignored is that in the quiet corridors of university science departments, important battles were fought by women whose names were quickly forgotten. You might assume that there's not much left to be written about the suffragette movement. ![]()
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