Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal, the first scientist and nutritionist woman from Latin America to lead the Latin America Society of Nutrition. Zoologist Anne McLaren conducted studied in genetics which led to advances in in vitro fertilization. That view of things has been tested out in a lot of different situations, including girls doing maths tests. There has been a steady increase in female graduates in agricultural sciences since the turn of the century. Marie Skłodowska-Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel prize in 1903 (physics), went on to become a double Nobel prize winner in 1911, both for her work on radiation.

Sara Seager is a Canadian-American astronomer who is currently a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and known for her work on extrasolar planets. Nina Byers notes that before 1976, fundamental contributions of women to physics were rarely acknowledged. In 1996, the salaries for women in professional fields increased from 85% to 95% relative to men with similar skills and jobs.Arabic scholars produced original scholarly work and generated copies of manuscripts from Classical periods. A 2018 review of the Royal Society of Britain by historians Aileen Fyfe and Camilla Mørk Røstvik produced similarly low numbers, [146] with women accounting for more than 25% of members in only a handful of countries, including Cuba, Panama and South Africa.

Grace Hopper, a mathematician, became one of the first computer programmers for the Mark I computer. The Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded to women 61 times between 1901 and 2022. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the share of women graduates in computer science dropped by between 2 and 13 Richards helped to form the American Home Economics Association, which published a journal, the Journal of Home Economics, and hosted conferences. Now Rachel lives in beautiful Missouri, USA, where she spends all day drawing and learning as much as she can.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu defied convention by introducing smallpox inoculation through variolation to Western medicine after witnessing it during her travels in the Ottoman Empire. When she was thirteen, Sibylla began growing caterpillars and studying their metamorphosis into butterflies.