Read about six trailblazing women in science history…

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Caroline Kennard (1827–1907)

American amateur scientist Caroline Kennard was a prominent member of her local women’s movement in Boston, Massachusetts, who pushed to raise the status of women in society. After hearing another woman use naturalist Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory, laid out in On the Origin of the Species (1859), to support the view that “the inferiority of women: past, present and future was based upon scientific principles”, Kennard wrote to Darwin in December 1881, encouraging him to clarify that this was clearly not the case.

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