Dr. Chodorow was a longtime professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout her career, she conducted groundbreaking research on mother-daughter relationships, specifically how mothering shapes psychological development and social roles.
In 1971, Dr. Blackall became the first woman to receive tenure in Cornell University's department of English. Seven years later, she was the department's first woman promoted to full professor. She was a scholar of British and American fiction and women's studies.
A pioneer in the field of medical geology, Dr. Skinner was a longtime senior research scientist at Yale University. During her tenure, she spent five years as head of Johnathan Edwards College, making her the first woman to lead a residential college at Yale.
Dr. Rossiter conducted extensive research on the contributions of women scientists in the U.S. during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. Discovering many of these women's findings were attributed to their male colleagues, Dr. Rossiter coined the term "the Matilda effect" to describe the bias against acknowledging the achievements of women in STEM whose work is attributed to their male colleagues..
Dr. Raitt's career in higher education spanned over four decades. She was the first woman to earn tenure at the Duke University Divinity School and founded the University of Missouri's department of religious studies.
Dr. Wolff served as a professor of humanities at MIT for more than two decades. She was a scholar of 19th- and 20th-century American women writers, authoring biographies on Emily Dickinson and Edith Wharton.
Dr. Cromwell first joined the Boston University faculty in 1951. Two years later, she co-founded the university's African Studies Center. In 1969, she founded the university's African American studies program, the country's second such program and the first to offer a graduate degree in the subject.
Dr. Scott, an authority on U.S. women's hitory, was hired as a full-time Duke University faculty member in 1961. In 1980, she became the history department chair. Dr. Scott retired from her position in 1991.
