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The Silenced Women of STEM

You"ve heard of Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, and maybe even Katherine Johnson...but what about all the other female scientists whose discoveries and contributions have been lost to history?Welcome to The Silenced Women of STEM, where we bring you stories about the forgotten, original Women in STEM.

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Episode 37: Maria Manasseina - Nap Time!!

The Silenced Women of STEM ·

2026/03/19

So we’ve all pulled an all nighter before, or stayed up a little too late before having to wake up early. I am currently suffering the consequences of that action. But how important is sleep really, and how does losing it affect how we function? Today we are talking about Maria Manasseina- also known as Marie von manassein, and Marie de Manaceine -, a Russian doctor who was a pioneer in biochemistry and experimental somnology in the second half of the nineteenth

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19:13

Episode 36: The Women Behind the ENIAC

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2026/03/11

Computers originally actually referred to a person, a computator…a person who does computations… a computer. Today, we will be talking about the female human computers who programmed the world’s first digital computer.Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAChttps://www.computer.org/volunteering/awards/pioneer/about-women-of-eniachttps://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep590a/06au/readings/00511940-frist.pdf

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17:46

35: Dora Richardson - The Woman behind the Man of...

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2026/03/04

Today’s episode speaks of a woman who created a brand new drug that went through clinical testing almost entirely in secret in order to become one of today’s very popular treatments of breast cancer. Oh, and the worst part is...a man took all her research and never credited her.Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Richardson https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dora-richardson-took-her-research-underground-to-develop-lifesaving/ https://awis.org/historical-women/dora-richardson-phd/

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34: Clara Barton - Angel of the Battlefield

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2026/03/04

Today we're talking about an angel of life, actually an angel of the battlefield to be specific, a one Miss Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross.Sources:

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31:21

Episode 33: Gisella Perl - The Gynecologist of Auschwitz

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2026/02/19

Giselle Perl, a Hungarian Jewish gynecologist who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to be a doctor there while simultaneously being a prisoner. This is her story.Sources: https://mjhnyc.org/events/a-jewish-doctor-in-auschwitz-gisella-perl/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200526-dr-gisella-perl-the-auschwitz-doctor-who-saved-lives https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/gisella-perl-and-our-haunted-present https://www.whisc.center/Gisella-Perl

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22:40

Episode 32: Debi Thomas - A girl can do both!

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2026/02/15

I have been seeing videos of people whose parents sold everything they had to send their child to the olympics, and even with full adult olympians how they work 6+ jobs to afford their sport or struggle to make rent. So today we are discussing Debi Thomas, a story of dedication, hard work, a fall from grace, and now hopefully a comeback story…and if you thought we forgot the STEM part…don’t worry, we didn’t.

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28:46

Episode 31: Sophie Scholl - Injustice anywhere is a...

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2026/02/04

What would you do if you lived in Nazi Germany and knew what the government stood for, but speaking out could cost you your life? Would you stay silent, or would you dare to resist? Most people chose survival. Sophie Scholl did not. As a young university student, Sophie openly opposed the Nazi regime through her involvement in the White Rose resistance movement, using words and ideas as weapons against oppression. Her story forces us to confront an uncomfortable question: when faced with injustice,

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21:51

Episode 30: Louise Bourgeois Boursier - Why have a...

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2026/01/18

Today's epidsode is about Louise Bourgeois Boursier! A royal midwife and the first woman to write an obstetrics

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Episode 29: Inge Lehmann - What is the Earth made of?

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2026/01/08

What is a seismic wave?Duh, it's the vibrations generated by an earthquake, explosion, or similar energetic source and propagated within the earth or along its surface.Did you know u can better understand the Earth's structure with them? Today, we're going to talk about the woman who used math to better understand our world.Sourceshttps://www.britannica.com/science/seismic-wave

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34:49

Episode 28: Metrodora - Metrodora and Ancient Midwives

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2025/12/19

What did you think women did back in the day for Gynecology? Going to the gynecologist is such a terrifying experience in 2025; I can't even imagine what it would be like before modern medicine. Well, back in the day, when scientific thought was just being birthed, little was known about people’s health, and even less was known about women’s bodies. Today we will be talking about Cleopatra Metrodora who some consider the “mother of gynecology”. She was a midwife, a surgeon, and obviously a

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Episode 27: Mary Putnam Jacobi - The Great Menstrual Lie

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2025/12/10

Today’s episode is called “The Great Menstrual Lie”, and as ridiculous as that sounds, this was an actual medical debate in the 1800s. Male doctors genuinely believed that periods made women too weak, emotional, and unstable for higher education or real careers. Today, we’re talking about the woman who used real science to shut that argument down. This is the story of Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, the woman who proved that menstruation was never the problem… the pseudoscience

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Episode 26: Susan La Flesche Picotte

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2025/12/03

Someone be very proud of us because we are not covering a Mary, Maria, Marie today!! Instead we will be talking about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American to earn a medical degree and a woman at that.

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Episode 25: Maria Cunitz - Selesian Pallas

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2025/11/27

When we talk about the history of astronomy, we often hear about the same familiar names: Kepler, Galileo, and Copernicus. Men whose work helped define the scientific revolution. But hidden between these well-known figures are brilliant thinkers whose contributions were nearly lost to time, simply because they did not fit the mold of who society believed a scientist could be. Today, we want to introduce you to one of those remarkable individuals: Maria Cunitz. She lived during the early 17th

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Episode 24: Jean Purdy - The Mother of IVF

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2025/11/19

Today, we’re talking about the woman behind the miracle of Test Tube Babies, the mother of IVF. A woman whose dedication helped solve infertility for millions of people around the world. Her name is Jean Purdy, and even though history tried to tuck her behind the men she worked with, her fingerprints are on every modern fertility clinic that exists

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Episode 23: Mary Seacole - Mother Seacole's World of...

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2025/11/12

Where's the farthest you've ever traveled?Well, what if planes didn’t exist and you had to take a two-month sea voyage instead?Today’s woman in STEM traveled the world when airplanes weren’t even dreamed of yet. She self-funded a journey halfway across the globe to take care of soldiers that weren’t even from her country, and was never formally recognized for her nursing due to her skin color. Today, we are talking about Mary

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Episode 22: Ruby Scott Payne - Milking the Mappy Way

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2025/11/05

You're familiar with the idea of a stressed, unpaid intern running around with a million things to do, of course to include grabbing the boss's lunch and fancy coffee order? Okay, now imagine that, but in the 1940s. You’re literally inventing a whole new kind of astronomy, working on secret radar systems during World War II, and everyone’s like, “Oh, sorry, can you file these papers real quick?”, “Can u grab me a coffee?”Today, we’re talking about Ruby Payne Scott, a physicist who helped invent

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Episode 21: Sylvia Earle - The Sturgeon General

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2025/10/30

Imagine diving to the bottom of the ocean while pregnant. Dude, I feel like when I am pregnant, I won’t be able to even move or do anything. But today’s woman in STEM was literally on the ocean floor while

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Episode 20: Lise Meitner - Splitting Atoms and...

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2025/10/24

Imagine going to work or school or whatever, and that's just normal. Men's bathrooms are everywhere, but you have to walk across the street at the very least to go to the BATHROOM. Now imagine trying to do groundbreaking research and dealing with that. Well, that's what Lise Meitner had to do when she was discovering Nuclear Fission.Sourceshttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Lise-Meitnerhttps://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/lise-meitner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner

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Episode 19: Marie Stopes - From Paleobotanist to...

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2025/10/21

So we carved Pumpkins this weekend in celebration of fall, October, and all things spooky season. And you will never guess what Disha carved on her pumpkin.It was a uterus…because there’s nothing scarier than being a woman. Well, that started me thinking about Women’s health, which led me to today’s Silenced Woman of STEM, a paleobotanist turned women’s health

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Episode 18: Mary Ward - A Girl's Best Friend is Her...

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2025/10/09

Today’s Silenced Woman of STEM not only spent hours creating beautiful and scientifically accurate illustrations of the microscopic world, but she was also a self-taught naturalist, an acclaimed author, and an astronomer in a time when women were mostly banned from professional science. This is the story of Mary Ward. She published a significant amount of work, all while raising eight children. She also holds the unfortunate, morbid distinction of being the first person in the world known to have

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