Introduction: We All Have a Story
Eunice Foote
1 He Said He Discovered Climate Change, but He Lied
Lise Meitner
2 A Woman Discovered Nuclear Fission; a Man Got Her Prize
Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, and Mary Jackson
3 Hidden No More-Black Women at NASA
Margaret Keane
4 He Said Her Paintings Were His-and Took All the Money
Elizabeth Magie
5 A Woman Invented Monopoly to Discourage Greed, Then a Greedy Man Stole It
Artemisia Gentileschi
6 She Might Have Become Legendary, but Her Paintings Depicted Women as Men's Equals
Margaret Knight
7 He Said That a Woman Was Not Capable of Designing a Machine
Anna Hedgeman
8 The Invisible Woman behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Candace Pert
9 The Professor Who Got Credit for His Student's Discovery
Mileva Einstein
10 Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize Belongs to His Wife, Too
Chien-Shiung Wu
11 A Woman, Not Two Men, Disproved Conservation of Parity
Camille Claudel
12 Auguste Rodin Gaslit and Copied the Artwork of His Student Lover
Rosalind Franklin
13 She Discovered DNA, Then Three Men Stole Her Work and Won the Nobel Prize
Mary Anderson
14 A Woman Designed Windshield Wipers, but Nobody Cared until a Man Redesigned Them
Marion Mahony Griffin
15 Frank Lloyd Wright Claimed Her Designs as His Own
Marion O'Brien Donovan
16 Victor Mills Says He Invented Disposable Diapers, but That's Poop
Zelda Fitzgerald
17 She Was More Than F. Scott's Wife
Ada Harris
18 A Curling Iron Is Not a Hair Straightener
Alice Ball
19 She Died Right after Inventing a Treatment for Leprosy, Then Her Boss Took the Credit
Martha Coston
20 She Greatly Improved Her Husband's Invention, but He Got the Patent, and He Was Dead
Denise Scott Brown
21 The Couple Was Equally Renowned, Yet Only He Got the Prize, Because She Wrote a Feminist Essay
Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
22 Even as a Student, She Deserved More Credit
Esther Zimmer
23 If She Hadn't Been Married to the Man Who Won the Nobel Prize, She Might Have Won It Herself
Tabitha Babbitt
24 She Gave Her Invention Away to Help Others, Then Two Men Patented It
Author's Note
Acknowledgments
Questions for Discussion
Index