Her vocal campaign efforts eventually paid off and in 1876 female entry into the profession of medicine was legalised. One frosty day in 1903, Mary Anderson (1866-1953), a native of Birmingham, Alabama, was visiting New York City via a trolley car. Whilst other books in this female focused fact collections have tended to focus on more historical figures, this collection includes many contemporary young and instantly recognisable women like Zoella, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé who provide a gateway to encourage readers to pick up this book and explore.

In November 1861, while she was staying at Willard’s Hotel in embattled Washington, DC, Julia Ward Howe wrote the lyrics to the most famous patriotic anthem of the Civil War.Although her name isn’t as instantly recognisable as her brother William Herschel, Caroline’s contribution has been honoured many times over, including a Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in 1838 (another first for a woman), and has a comet, an asteroid, a crater on the Moon and a space telescope named after her. In the late 80s, she joined other minority female scientists at a conference to address the challenges faced by minorities in STEM disciplines. Through her scientific work, Janet established a respectful correspondence with those in the highest positions in the maritime community: men like the head of the Admiralty’s Hydrographic Office, Captain, later Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort, and Professor Sir George Biddell Airy, the Astronomer Royal. It was not until 1983, when she was awarded The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, that the scientific community began to recognise not only just how important these jumping genes are, but how much of the genome they make up - some estimates suggest they makes up 40 per cent of the human genome. We’ve all heard of the likes of Ada Lovelace, Rosalind Franklin and Marie Curie, but there are many more famous women in STEM that deserve your attention.

This was a big step in equality between men and women - and many would argue that, for a large part of this, we have Emmeline to thank.McClintock also was the first to suggest the idea of epigenetics, where genes alter their activity in response to external factors, some 40 years before it was formally studied. All that changed, however, on the night of 2 December when Arthur Eddington, the head of the Cambridge Observatory, gave a lecture in Cambridge’s Trinity Hall, recounting his recent solar expedition that proved Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

A beautiful package that rejoices in the remarkable and crucial contributions women have made to our society. Racing outside for a closer look, she saw that the rain had churned the soil to reveal a sea of wriggling black slugs. Created by 41-year-old Marling and her former Georgetown University classmate Zal Batmanglij, the same duo behind Netflix’s much-loved mystery series The OA, A Murder at the End of the World tells two intertwining stories: the first is of tech billionaire Andy Ronson (Clive Owen), who invites an impressive yet eclectic group of guests to join him and his wife Lee (Marling) at a remote retreat in Iceland, where one of the visitors is quickly killed off.She spent her entire career analysing maize, and in the 1930s developed a staining technique that allowed her to identify, examine and describe its individual chromosomes. In the 1880s, Jex-Blake practised medicine privately in Edinburgh, founding the Edinburgh Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children and, in 1886, the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women.