Details on sources of front page image:

#1:

Logo from an original poster, designed for the Radford University’s 3rd Student Research Conference on Gender.  The artist is Scott McManus, a Radford student.  See http://www.runet.edu/~gstudies/conf2000.html

#2:

Leticia Márquez Magaña, a contemporary Latina molecular biologist at San Francisco State (PhD University of California Berkeley, biochemistry).  Her biography is featured in the Biography Project of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.  See http://www.sacnas.org/

#3:

Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) an American Nobel-prize winning geneticist featured on the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory’s “Women of the MBL” site.  See http://www.mbl.edu/html/WOMEN/intro.html

#4:

Isaac Newton (1643-1727), a British natural philosopher who formulated the first laws of physics (Newton’s Laws) in the 17th century.  Biographical information and many photos are featured on an Isaac Newton site at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews-Scotland.  See http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html

#5:

Alan Turing (1912-1954), a key figure in the history of computing who worked for British intelligence during World War II, and went on to do some little-known but pioneering work in biology. See Turing biographical site created by John Kowalik in the fall 1995 for his “Professionalism in Computing” class at the University of Vermont: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Turing.html

#6:

Face of the Nobel prize medal in chemistry and physics (note engraving detail: this is actual Albert Einstein’s medal!), which depicts both knowledge and wisdom as female.  For more information, see Londa Schiebinger’s The Mind Has No Sex? (Harvard University Press). See http://www.hup.harvard.edu/Also.by/schiebinger_min_sex.html

#7:

Ruth Ella Moore (1903- ), the first African-American PhD in bacteriology (Ohio State, 1933).  Her biography is featured in the ‘medicine’ section of Mitchell Brown’s Princeton-based site on “The Faces of African American Science.” See http://www.princeton.edu/~mcbrown/display/ruth_moore.html