# Against the Odds

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- Book: [Against the Odds](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-gribbin/against-the-odds) ([Against the Odds.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-gribbin/against-the-odds.md))
- Authors: [John Gribbin](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-gribbin), [Mary Gribbin](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-gribbin), [Jocelyn Bell Burnell](https://www.bookquiver.com/jocelyn-bell-burnell)
- Publisher: icon_books
- ISBN: 978-18-3773-130-5
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2025-02-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than men. Two centuries ago, however, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, when science as we know it was just getting started, the situation was far worse. Then, the very notion of...