To mark Women’s History Month, Stella Butler has written a short piece on our former faculty members, Marjory Stephenson and Dorothy Moyle Needham and the difficulties they faced establishing scientific careers in the 1920s and 30s.
Stella is Librarian Emeritus at the University of Leeds and her book, Breaking the Glass Ceiling of Science: the first eleven women to become Fellows of the Royal Society 1945-1954, will be published by the History Press later this year.