STEMinist Stories

In our final episode of the season, we talk to Liz Bruton from the Science Museum about how women feature in the collections, as well as her favourite exhibition and objects in the museum. We're also joined by the whole STEMinist team to talk about household objects and how they link to women in STEM in ways we might not realise. 

The penultimate episode of the series looks at Maths, the oldest STEM area. We start all the way back in 300AD with Hypatia of Alexander, and cover a whole range of genius women up until the present day. 

In this episode, the STEMinist hosts attempt to explain the complicated world of physics. We look at the Manhattan Project and the morals of science, explain some Physics theory and look at some great women working at the cutting edge of science in the 20th Century. 

In this episode, we look at Chemistry, a STEM field that has historically been more welcoming to women than other areas. We look at the Curie family and their incredible contributions to science, and two women who's work is incredibly influential but were nearly lost to history. 

In this episode, we look at women who've broken barriers in the male-dominated field of technology, rebelling against being pigeon-holed, creating female led companies in the 1960s, and trying to resolve food poverty. We also talk to Harriet Hunt, former NASA intern and Aerospace engineer. 

This episode looks at female explorers of the Victorian and Edwardian era's who broke gender barriers to travel the globe and made crucial discoveries along the way. 

In this episode, we talk about the wonderful world of Biology, including the woman the HeLa cells come from and the first female doctor in the UK. We are also lucky to be joined by the amazing Dr Carla Brown to tell us about her company Game Doctor. 

Today we look at women in engineering, the issues women have faced getting into the field in the past (and today), as well as discussing the wonderful inventions of Hertha Aryton, Margaret Knight and Margaret Partridge. 

Welcome to STEMinist Stories, the podcast about women's contribution to STEM and why they've been historically overlooked.