'Lessons in Chemistry': The (Un)balanced  Chemical Equation of (In)equality : Chemical Education

Olimpia Mamula Steiner

doi:10.2533/chimia.2022.798

'Lessons in Chemistry': The (Un)balanced Chemical Equation of (In)equality

Chemical Education

Authors

Olimpia Mamula Steiner Haute Ecole d'Ingénierie et d'Architecture, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland HES-SO https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3538-3553

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2533/chimia.2022.798

Keywords:

Book review, Chemistry in fiction, Gender equality, Women in science

Abstract

A literary success in 2022, the novel 'Lessons in chemistry' describes the struggle for recognition and independence of a female research chemist in the conservative USA of the 1950’s.