Society restricted women for centuries to never aspire to be more than dependent on a man. But many females during this time period were not satisfied, were not happy with being just a wife and mother, and longed for something to advance themselves in. Finally in the 17th and 18th centuries intellectual women began to shake off their shackles from the male sex and grasp onto the Scientific Method with eager hands. Even though their credibility was critisized and they were rarely aknowledged, women still held interest in many feilds of science, such as botany, physics, chemistry, biology, a…
