There has always been a gender bias in society. In the past women were not

allowed to go to school or any place that would benefit them educationally. They were the

caretakers and homemakers of society and this remained so for a very long period of time.

Then there was the Women's Right's movement and women began to fight for an equal

right to do anything that men were allowed to do. The hardest part of this fight was

actually going against the odds and doing the opposite of what men felt that they should

do no matter what was said. A great example of this is the gender issues between Rosalind

Franklin and the men of Cambridge during the time when the structure of DNA was still

In James Watson's publication of The Double Helix Watson tells the story of the

issues that were present during the race for DNA. There were a total of five main players

when it came down to who was the closest to discovering the double helix. Of these five

immediately on the basis of her acid smile just couldn't be done." (p95) The main

the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents." (p23) This shows that to men and

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