Women and Science in Australia

Summary

This theme, created May 2023, is a gateway to the representation of women in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation. A good starting point is the list of women registered in the Encyclopedia from the web exhibition "Where are the Women in Australian Science?". This list is updated each edition. This theme will be progressively developed and will include links to biographical materials that focus specifically on this topic as well as links to people and other entities of relevance.

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regulary edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details

Books

• Carey, Jane, Women and Science at the University of Melbourne: Reflections on the Career of Dame Margaret Blackwood (Melbourne: University of Melbourne, History of the University Project, 1996), 24 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Carey, Jane, 'Departing from Their Sphere? Australian Women in Science, 1880-1960' in Departures: How Australia Reinvents Itself, Xavier Pons, ed. (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2002), pp. 175-183; 294-295; 304-314. Details
• Carey, Jane, 'Clark, Ellen (1915-1988), Naturalist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), p. 220. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/clark-ellen-12323. Details
• Carey, Jane, 'Blackwood, Dame Margaret (1909-1986), Botanist and Geneticist' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 17: 1981 - 1990 A-K, Diane Langmore, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2007), pp. 110-111. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/blackwood-dame-margaret-12218. Details

Journal Articles

• Carey, Jane, 'Valerie May (1916- )', Australasian Science, 20 (9) (1999), 1999. Details
• Carey, Jane, 'Margaret Blackwood (1909-1986)', Australasian Science, 20 (3) (1999), 46. Details
• Carey, Jane, 'Hope Black, née Macpherson (1919- ): First Female Curator at the Musuem of Victoria', Australasian Science, 21 (5) (2000), 46. Details
• Carey, Jane, 'Engendering Scientific Pursuits: Australian Women and Science, 1880-1960', Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 7 (2001), 10-25. Details
• Grimshaw, Patricia and Carey, Jane, 'Foremothers: Kathleen Fitzpatrick (1905-1990), Margaret Kiddle (1914-1958) and Australian History after the Second World War', Gender and History, 13 (2) (2001), 349-373. Details

Resource Sections

• Carey, Jane, '"What's a nice girl like you doing with a Nobel Prize?" Elizabeth Blackburn, "Australia's" first woman Nobel laureate and women's scientific leadership', in Seizing the initiative: Australian women leaders in politics, workplaces and communities, Francis, Rosemary; Grimshaw, Patricia; and Standish, Ann, eSchoarship Research Centre, ]Parkville, Vic.], 2012, https://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/sti/pdfs/19_Carey.pdf. Details

Theses

• Carey, Jane, 'Barrier Unknown? Margaret Blackwood's Life in Science', BAHons thesis, Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1995. Details
• Carey, Jane, 'Departing from their sphere: Australian women and science, 1880-1960', PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, 2003, 356 pp. Details