These women were writing for their lives. They were writing because they needed a job. And then they began writing for other people's lives to help save their lives and make their lives better.
At Lost Women of Science, our mission is to inspire people, particularly women and girls to take an interest in STEM, and we do that by telling the remarkable stories of women who devoted their lives to science.
From Emma Reh, who traveled to Mexico to get a divorce and ended up trekking to archaeological digs on horseback, to Jane Stafford, who took on taboo topics such as sex and sexually transmitted diseases, they started a tradition of explaining science to nonscientists.
Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette explains in her book of the same title and our episode that many early science journalists were women, working alongside their male colleagues despite less pay and outright misogyny.
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