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Mural in Judimendi to celebrate the importance of women in history

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Mural in Judimendi to celebrate the importance of women in history

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Have a look as you walk past

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Fierce Women of Art | The Art Assignment | PBS Digital Studios

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Enjoy it !!!

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We recently came across an outrageously entertaining series of comics called The Illustrated Women In Science by math and science teacher, and dad to two daughters, Dale DeBakcsy. The series, which features great historical and current scientists, celebrates the brilliance of these women and the "absurdities that too often surrounded them."

Dale was first inspired to create the series when he noticed that a big part of his teaching style was to share anecdotes from the lives of various scientists to humanize the topic for his students, but he had virtually no sources for the lives of female scientists.

He explained to WYSK, "There were a number of promising girls in my class who were thinking about careers in science, and I wanted to have more stories to help inspire them, to aid them in seeing themselves in a laboratory or under a stack of partial differential equations."

So Dale started building up a collection of female scientist biographies, and not just the expected ones. Dale made a concerted effort to find many nineteenth century and early twentieth century biographies of women whose memory was "slowly fading from the public consciousness."

With his women in science shelf growing, Dale started to think of a way to make these women's lives and their accomplishments available on a wider basis. In addition to his role as a teacher, Dale is also a seasoned webcomic creator. In his series Frederick the Great: A Most Lamentable Comedy Breaching Space and Time (written with Geoff Schaeffer), Dale uses the medium of comics to draw attention to various lesser-known figures of European history, and thought "why not do the same with women in science?" And The Illustrated Women In Science series was born.

Since 2014, Dale has been featuring each comic from this series on MadArtLab, an awesome site that is devoted to the intersection between art and science. This past January, he compiled the first year of his Women In Science illustrations into a fantastic, must have book.

"It's a book for my students, and my two daughters, but really for anybody who is interested in how brilliant science can be done in the most appalling of social and cultural situations," Dale told us. "On the whole each of these stories has been a true treat to find and devour, and a great joy to present in as compelling a manner as I can. The best, of course, is at conventions when people pick up the book and say, 'I haven't heard of half these people.' That's when I know I've done something useful."

Here's a selection of Dale's favorite comics from his The Illustrated Women In Science series, along with his commentary.
Emmy Noether, who wasn't allowed to lecture under her own name and didn't get paid even after discovering the law that unites all the conservation laws we've ever discovered or ever will. Isabel Morgan, who was on her way to developing a polio vaccine years before Salk but had to drop it when her husband had her leave her job so that she could follow him. Marie Tharp, who watched her life's work dismantled by committee in front of her eyes.
But for every tragedy, there is a triumph...
Maria Merian, a sixteenth century Dutch woman who self-financed an entomological expedition to the jungles of South America. Fabiola Gianotti, who oversaw perhaps the most massive joint scientific endeavor of modern physics. Belle Benchley, who invented the modern zoo and was beloved to her dying day.
Love these? You can check out more at MadArtLab.

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The Illustrated Women In Science Comic Series

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We recently came across an outrageously entertaining series of comics called The Illustrated Women In Science by math and science teacher, and dad to two daughters, Dale DeBakcsy. The series, which features great historical and current scientists, celebrates the brilliance of these women and the "absurdities that too often surrounded them."

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What can we do about it? Do you support the quota for women in top jobs ?
* The problem is the system
* Reformist behaviour can only solve some problems but it has no sense if we don´t get to the root of this matter
* Feminism can´t be capitalist because it won´t change anything
* Women have to demonstrate to get equality. Fight
* The key is in education. It´s the only way to have a new society

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If you were asked to mention women in Science /Art, how many names could you give? Why?
* We can only mention a few names because we only speak about men in Science and Art classes; no women are particularly named.
* We can mention Marie Curie, Hipatia, Ada Lovelace (the first computer programmer), Frida Kahlo. Apart from science being thought to be only for men, many women´s names have been silenced by significant men in science
* Susan Jocelyn was silenced by Antony Hewish, her thesis tutor. She was a brilliant astrophysicist who discovered the first pulsar radio signal. The same fate was suffered by Einstein´s wife, unknown unlike her husband.

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Speak about women in Science /Art you admire.
* We think that all these women were capable of doing amazing things that changed history
* Julia Dault, Hilma Af Klint, J K Rowling, Zaha Hadid, Frida Kahlo, Emma Watson, Rosalind Franklin, Michael Obama, Rosa Luxemburgo, Simone de Beauvoir, Ada Lovelace, Marie Curie, Hipatia, Aleksandra Kollontai

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Have you considered the fact you are(n´t) a woman in your academic decisions? Why?
* No, we shouldn´t do it and we don´t do it consciously
* I have never considered the fact that I am a woman in my academic decisions. I don´t want my gender to determine my life
* Your career options are influenced by society because some jobs are thought to be for just one gender

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What is the real situation of women in Scince / Art? Is there a real glass ceiling?Give examples.
* We know that the glass ceiling is a real problem because in science women have more difficulties to have a top job and be recognised.
* Women are banned in industry
* There are so many differences between men and women but the situation is getting better. This gap will eventually disappear.