Women Chemists Committee

More informal networking happens at professional society meetings, workshops like this, and with organizations such as the Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society or the international American Women in Science. It also happens informally in organizations with social or work groups. And the advent of the Internet has expanded greatly the opportunities for networking, with online career coaches, chat rooms, and the like. 

All of these contributions by women chemists were invisible. No mention was made of them in an article of 1917 by the Institute of Chemistry on the work accomplished by wartime (male) chemists.19 More recently, in a lengthy review of the mobilisation of civilian chemists during the First World War,20 the only mention of a woman chemist is And so, too, left without an offer from the [Reserved Occupations] Committee, the only woman of whom we have record, Margaret Turner, of the Chemical Laboratories at Aberystwyth. 21... 

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