Engineering

No. 794: Ellen Swallow Richards
The first female graduate of MIT spends thirty years developing the concept of domestic science, organizes the American Home Economics Association and becomes America's first sanitary engineering instructor. However, universities do not begin giving home economics degrees until almost two decades after her death.

No. 80: Women
Moving from anonymous inventions to a female president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, women are demonstrating a pattern of increased involvement in engineering.

No. 568: Women Engineers, a Survey
The survey shows the problems working all women face as well as a group of women who've made a very good career choice-engineering.

No. 465: Science and Engineering Education
The United States fails to make use of a rich source of engineers and allows potential American college and graduate students to maintain misconceptions about the field of engineering.

No. 227: Women in Mathematics
Linking mind and matter: "more and more women are attending that wedding of concept and object that we call engineering."

Mathematics

No. 215: Hypatia's Mathematics
An astonishing mathematical scholar, inventor, and independent woman, Hypatia is the target of a political reprisal on the way to her father's library.

No. 217: The Witch of Agnesi
A translation error turns a charitable and mathematical mind into the stuff of dark fairytales.

No. 223: Sophie Germain
A 13-year-old girl goes without heat or clothing to study math during the French storming of the Bastille.

No. 225: Sonya Kovalevsky
A little Russian girl's nursery is wallpapered with pages from her father's old calculus text. Craving to understand the curious wall coverings, she grows up to advance the world's understanding of differential equations and applied mechanics.

No. 226: Emmy Noether
The daughter of a German math professor helps develop the foundations of modern abstract algebra.

No. 1174: An Intellectual Legacy
After his death, George Boole's wife sells his Royal Society gold medal in order to give their children a chance to fulfill their intellectual legacy. Generations later, due to Mrs. Boole's intellectual nurturing, the gold medal returns to the family.

No. 880: Alicia Boole Stott
A housewife who studied hyperspace and geometry in her free time, the daughter of George Boole and sister of G.I. Taylor is part of an impressive intellectual legacy.

No. 626: Maria Montessori
An emotional outburst by the founder of a new educational style reveals her theory on imagination, and the intensity behind her success.

No. 227: Women in Mathematics
Linking mind and matter: "more and more women are attending that wedding of concept and object that we call engineering."

No. 213: The Pythagoreans
Pythagoras and Plato believed in the intellectual equality of women, yet some young girls today still do not.

Medicine

No. 544: Early Women Doctors
An Athenian woman disguised as a man illegally attends the University at Alexandria and escapes a death penalty brought on by other jealous doctors.

No. 453: The Man-Midwife
The mass death caused by the plague, and the subsequent interest in repopulation, caused female midwives to clash with society's trade-minded mercantile economic agenda.

No. 483: Dorothea Erxleben
The daughter of a German doctor faces accusations of witchcraft when she tries to follow in her father's footsteps.

No. 1035: Martha Ballard, Midwife
A midwife's diary reveals the hardships and miracles that occurred in colonial Maine.

No. 867: Hannah Ropes
Two Civil War nurses challenge the doctors and even the Secretary of War, bringing about the eventual humanization of military medical care. One of these nurses was the author Louisa May Alcott.

No. 546: Medieval Women Doctors
Defying 19th-century misconceptions of medieval doctors, an Italian woman writes medical texts that are sensible, humane, and frank-more so than their Victorian counterparts.

No. 626: Maria Montessori
An emotional outburst by the founder of a new educational style reveals her theory on imagination, and the intensity behind her success.

No. 1516: Saving the Lore
There's a new endangered species-and it's human. Can old knowledge survive among new technology?