There, at the end of the 2nd row, is the first woman to achieve a bachelor of science in Japan.

Her name was 黒田チカ, Chika Kuroda (1884-1968) & she was the daughter of a samurai...1/6

#WomenInSTEM #tbt

When her daughters spoke glowingly of her influence on them at the DNC, I was one of the 300,000 people who flocked to her Wikipedia page to find out more.

It left me curious about her life as a scientist & sent me down a rabbit hole. My new @PLOS post is what I learned:

https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/08/29/some-context-of-what-came-before-shyamala-gopalan-harris-scientist-life/

#WomenInSTEM #tbt