Which female figure has inspired you?
Clare B., Principal Director: “In my working career I have been inspired by colleagues, male and female, and have always felt motivated by the team around me. However, more widely I have always been a strong advocate of human rights and find the work that Malala Yousafzai has done, in the face of significant danger and adversity, awe inspiring. She proves that with will, determination and empathy, that women can change the world.”
Christina C., Team Secretary: “My mum, dealing with work, 2 daughters, family, homework, always with a smile and being very sympathetic, always taking care of everyone and being on top of everything with an outstanding care. Mums are stars!!”
Sara T., Technician: “Inspiring me in life, in general, are all the women in science who were and are leading their fields, more so the ones in the past for their greater struggles (such as Marie Curie, Henrietta Swan Leavitt ect) and in recent times Andrea Ghez.”
Chelsea H., Graduate Engineer: “Kathleen Lonsdale! She was a professor of Chemistry but managed to pursue her interests when societal expectations and opportunities for women were very limited (she was born in 1903).
When she was a child she had to attend a boys’ school to study science and maths since they did not offer these lessons at her girls’ school, she graduated university with the highest marks in physics in 10 years, then she went on to discover benzene and hexachlorobenzene during her research whilst raising three children.
Her most important legacy was to encourage all women to believe in their potential.”
