Women in Science: Limitless Discovery

When Rosalyn Yalow was applying for graduate fellowships in 1941 after earning a B.A. in chemistry and physics magna cum laude from Hunter College, she found only one school honest enough to explain why she kept getting rejected everywhere: The sciences were an all-male preserve, so there was no chance that she as a woman — not to mention a Jew — would ever get a job in her field.