![]() ![]() ![]() So I bought a chemistry textbook from the 1950s and taught myself the basics. I’m not a scientist and the last time I took chemistry was as a teenager. What was the research like for this book? They endured a lot – but they also sparked a massive amount of change. It was my way of saluting that generation of over-looked women. On a related note, I set Lessons in Chemistry in the early 60s, not only because I wanted to reassure myself that we have made progress in terms of sexism, but also because that’s when my mother and all of the other so-called “average housewives” were at home. Later, when I got back to my desk (still mad!) I wrote the first chapter of Lessons in Chemistry. The main inspiration came from a bad day at work! I’d been in a meeting which had been plagued by some average sexism, but for some reason on that day, I just couldn’t let it go. ![]()
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