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Article: Finding Athena.(young FEMINISTS)
- Article from:
- Women's Health Activist
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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I excitedly rounded the corner to the wax museum next exhibit. I'd passed by artists, dictators, president Pope's and Hollywood hunks. Now it was time to my eyes on the one group of wax individuals meant the most to me, the scientists. I could imagine what great contributors to science would represented, How would Margaret, Mead or Goodall look as wax figures? I couldn't wait to see.
As I turned the corner that would become one of the most important corners of my life, I saw Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, Sigmund Freud, and Bill Gates. I puzzled for a second at the lack of female representation. Where was Jane? She must be around ...