Ron Peters's Reviews > Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe

Anyone with an interest in science, especially physics and astronomy, should read this book. But it should be made mandatory reading for all students in these fields of study.

This book gives you the stories and accomplishments (unrecognized and unrewarded) of notable, yet invisible, women scientists. They were underpaid or unpaid, or had their work published under the names of the men they worked with. For many years, women in these fields could not be granted degrees even if they had done all their course work and could not be given official appointments in universities and laboratories.

This book shows that the current story of physics and astronomy is incomplete. It also shows how many women in these fields became activists, leaders, and policymakers in order to change the system, and above all, it demonstrates that what needs to be fixed is the system, not the women.