The Sky Is for Everyone

By Virginia Trimble (editor), David A. Weintraub (editor),

Book cover of The Sky Is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words

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An inspiring anthology of writings by trailblazing women astronomers from around the globe

The Sky Is for Everyone is an internationally diverse collection of autobiographical essays by women who broke down barriers and changed the face of modern astronomy. Virginia Trimble and David Weintraub vividly describe how, before 1900, a…

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1 author picked The Sky Is for Everyone as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

As I read this book of 37 individual stories, I felt so pleased that these leading astronomers, all women, had taken the time to write and publish their stories about the obstacles they had faced in scientific research and recognition due to gender prejudice. It was tough but compelling to read out the only woman in a physics class having belittling names called out to her as she entered the room and men who took credit for women’s work.

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