Science, suffrage and misogyny
100 years after women could first vote in UK general elections, Rachel Brazil looks back at their fight for professional equality in chemistry
December 2018 marks the centenary of the first UK general election in which women could vote – albeit only those over the age of 30 who owned property. But it would be a further two years before women gained entry to the Chemical Society, the main body representing chemists at that time and a forerunner society of today’s RSCfe