Excerpt from the book Women of Science

"It is sometimes said that women are well qualified for administrative and organizational work, but less gifted than men for the original labor required by the higher spheres of the academic or scientific worlds. It is still too early to be able to compile reliable statistics to combat this easy generalization, as the proportion of women able to devote their energy to pure research is still small and only the future will allow us to truly measure the flourishing of their capacities. However, it is possible to point out that, even during this period of relative beginnings when they had more opportunities, women have created first-rate original work in many fields. In science, for example, we can cite, besides the famous name of Madame Curie, those of Dr. Florence Sabin, Professor Ellen Gleditsch, Professor Johanna Westerdijk, Professor Elisabeth Schiemann, Dr. Harriette Chick, Dr. G. Elles, – to name just a few among many who have made a valuable contribution to knowledge [...]. Names of women distinguished for their knowledge and originality can be cited in many other fields – archaeology, anthropology, history, philology, philosophy, jurisprudence, economics. In field research, in the planning and supervision of important excavations, women such as Miss G. Caton Thompson, Dr. Hanna Rydh and Dr. Dorothy Garrod have achieved remarkable success, thus simply and effectively refuting the old postulate of women's inability to control and organize male workers."