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Women have been earning PhDs in astronomy since 1893, and their professional lives and research topics have been many and varied — there is no single ‘women in astronomy’ experience. In The

Sky Is for Everyone, astronomers Virginia Trimble and David Weintraub have captured some of the variation in a collection of personal essays from 37 living women astronomers. As Trimble and

Weintraub note, the collection by nature only includes women who have managed to stay in professional astronomy, but within that constraint they have covered a range of nationalities and

subdisciplines, and the stories these women have to tell are by turns fascinating, inspiring and infuriating. The essays are arranged by the authors’ PhD dates, which range from 1963 to

2010, giving readers the chance to see how much has, or has not, changed in recent decades.

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