Chapter 1 Women Scientists: An Uphill Battle for Recognition Magdolna Hargittai * Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Budapest University of Technology and Economics, P.O. Box 91, 1521 Budapest, Hungary * E-mail: [email protected]. For well over a century the Nobel Prize has brought science into the limelight annually by honoring a few exceptional achievements. There are many deserving scientists worthy of the Prize, but only a few receive it. Thus, many who deserve it—both men and women—do not get it. But women are especially underrepresented among the recipients. In our male-dominated society, historically relatively few women had the possibilities to fulfill the promise of their talent and still fewer received proper recognition when they succeeded. Recently, more and more attention has been paid to this problem. Even though the situation has slowly improved, women are still underrepresented in the highest echelons of science. This volume is dedicated to all women scientists who might/should have—but did not—receive the Nobel Prize. © 2018 American Chemical Society Downloaded via 14.165.90.143 on June 30, 2023 at 03:13:34 (UTC). See https://pubs.acs.org/sharingguidelines for options on how to legitimately share published articles. Mainz and Strom; The Posthumous Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Volume 2. Ladies in Waiting for the Nobel Prize ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 2018.
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