#25 ULTRAVIOLET WAVES: You have to wear pants to do science

Not so long ago, women who wanted to do science had to take on the appearance and name of men. Examples are the French Jeanne Baret and Sophie Germain.

Baret, a pioneering botanist, became the first woman to tour the world in 1774, and during the same period, Sophie Germain made contributions to mathematics and philosophy equivalent to the most famous male mathematicians. But to accomplish these feats, they had to renounce their name and put on their pants. In fact, at that time, women did not have the opportunity to do science, it was the space of men (and, to a certain extent, it still is today). Their stories have been told by Ana Galarraga Aiestarán and Alaitz Ochoa de Eribe Aguirre, another female scientist, who also mentioned Ada Lovelace, and they have highlighted many other scientific topics.

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