Women who changed science missing from GCSE and A-level courses – new study

By Stephanie Buttigieg, PhD Candidate in Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Gregory Cooke, Postdoctoral Associate in Astrophysics and Astrobiology, University of Cambridge
Skyla White, Research Fellow at Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern

Cast your mind back to your secondary school science classroom: the fiery glow of Bunsen burners, scratched safety goggles that never quite fit, and a giant periodic table pinned to the wall.

When you learned about the breakthroughs that shaped our world and the people who made them, whose names were attached? From Newton’s laws to Darwin’s theory of natural selection, the ones you remember are almost certainly male.

That experience was not just down to individual teachers. It was and still is written into official GCSE and A-level course specifications. Because these early…

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