Fun Facts and Links

Among young women astronomers, 94 percent said they were treated differently than their male counterparts, and the survey's author noted this difference was sometimes positive.

There have been twenty-four women astronauts in space.

66 percent of women said they expected their careers would be hindered because of their gender. ( www.space.com/peopleinterviews/women_astronomers_000111_wg.html)

The first woman astronomer to discover a comet started out her career as a singer? Caroline Lucretia Herschel was quite successful as a singer, in fact, and received invitations to sing with orchestras in a number of cities. ( <http://crux.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/didyouknow.7.html>)

NASA has its own Women of NASA website: <http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/intro.html>

So does the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL): <http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/tours/women/>

Here's the Comittee On the Status of Women in Astronomy (CSWA): <http://www.aas.org/~cswa/>

Lots of handy bios here at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's page on Women Atronomers: <http://cannon.sfsu.edu/~gmarcy/cswa/history/history.html>

Another good database of bios, privately run:http://users.erols.com/njastro/barry/bar-page/womenast.htm