The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly, careworn and industrious but making no significant contribution.

Barbara Goldsmith
The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly,...
The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly,...
The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly,...
The rare female scientist was depicted as masculine, coarse, ugly,...
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The belief that women were not intelligent enough to be scientists and that they should instead be relegated to the roles of wives and mothers continued in upper-class society for many years. J.C. Bose, a well-known scientist of the 1800s, was one such individual who faced such difficulties in his life.

Source: Obsessive Genius: The Inner World Of Marie Curie

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