A Lab of One's Own focuses on the female experts who carried out vital research. Defying protests about their intellectual inferiority and child-bearing responsibilities, during the War they won support by mobilizing women to enter conventionally male domains. Suffrage campaigners aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress. Patricia Fara investigates the enterprising careers of these pioneering women and their impact on science, medicine, and the First World War. It tells fascinating and extraordinary stories featuring initiative, determination, and isolation, set against a backdrop of war, prejudice, and disease. A Lab of One's Own commemorates both anniversaries by revealing the untold lives of female scientists, doctors, and engineers who undertook endeavours normally reserved for men. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public HealthĢ018 marked a double centenary: peace was declared in war-wracked Europe, and women won the vote after decades of struggle.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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