Scientific literature has long been dominated by male figures, but since the 2000s, a movement to rehabilitate women scientists has emerged in fiction and non-fiction.

Books like "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly tell the story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, the African-American mathematicians at NASA whose work was essential to the American space program.

"The stories we tell about women in science shape the possibilities we imagine for the future."

— Hope Jahren

"Lab Girl" by Hope Jahren offers a captivating autobiographical account of a woman geobiologist confronted with the challenges of sexism in the academic world, while celebrating her passion for science.