DNA: discovery depended heavily on the work of a woman

Rosalind Franklin (DNA structure photo "borrowed" by Watson and Crick? "[Their] discovery depended heavily on the work of a woman, chemist Rosalind Franklin, whose research was used without her knowledge or permission. Watson's memoir of the discovery dismisses Franklin as frumpy, hostile and unimaginative. A later work by a friend casts Franklin as a feminist icon, cheated of recognition." source: http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/oct/darklady/)

Edith Fredericks Jones often stated that women could accomplish great things (personal communication, various times~1977-1982). Indeed, Rosalind Franklin accomplished great things. Today women still are acomplishing great things and being under-recognized. Even pay is not acknowledging women's, "work," equally with the pay of men doing similar work.

Women are often cast in negative terms, as Rosalind was, even while doing breakthrough work. Reflect on situations around you. Are women appropriately recognized?