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This is a timeline of women in science, spanning from ancient history up to the 21st century. While the timeline primarily focuses on women involved with natural sciences such as astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, it also includes women from the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology) and the formal sciences (e.g. mathematics ...
This is a timeline of women in science in the United States. ... 1889: Mary Emilie Holmes became the first female Fellow of the Geological Society of America. [3]
The formation of the Kovalevskaia Fund in 1985 and the Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World in 1993 gave more visibility to previously marginalized women scientists, but even today there is a dearth of information about current and historical women in science in developing countries.
The first International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists was held in New York in 1964, organised by the US Society of Women Engineers and attended by 493 women from 35 countries. The second International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists followed in 1967 in Cambridge , UK, organised by the Women's Engineering Society with ...
1980: Geochemist Katsuko Saruhashi became the first woman elected to the Science Council of Japan. [36] 1982: Janet Watson became the first woman president of the Geological Society of London. [37] 1983: Geologist Sudipta Sengupta (and marine biologist Aditi Pant) became one of the first two Indian women to join an Antarctic expedition. [38]
1970: Mina Rees became the first female president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [13] 1971: Mary Ellen Rudin constructed the first Dowker space. [14] The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) was founded. It is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active ...
Women have made great strides – and suffered some setbacks – throughout history, but many of their gains were made during two eras of activism. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US ...
March 12, 1994: The first women were ordained as Church of England priests; 32 women were ordained together. [88] [89] 1992: First women ordained as priests in the Anglican Church of Australia. 1996: On 21 December 1996 Gloria Shipp was the first Aboriginal woman ordained as priest in the Anglican Church of Australia