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Many early women on Antarctica were the wives of explorers. [7] Some women worked with Antarctica from afar, crafting policies for a place they had never seen. [2] Women who wished to have larger roles in Antarctica and on the continent itself had to "overcome gendered assumptions about the ice and surmount bureaucratic inertia". [8]
First team of women scientists from the United States, led by Lois Jones, works on Antarctica. [13] First group of women to reach the pole were Pamela Young, Jean Pearson, Lois Jones, Eileen McSaveney, Kay Lindsay and Terry Tickhill. [22] The women stepped off of the C-130 ramp at the same time. [23]
They spent four months in Antarctica in the McMurdo Dry Valleys collecting data and rock specimens. The team also briefly visited the South Pole. [6] The first women in history reached the South Pole because of a request Jones' made when she was at the McMurdo station, the US Antarctic research station on the edge of the frozen Ross Sea. Jones ...
Monahon, 35, is one of many women who say the isolated environment and macho culture at the United States research center in Antarctica have allowed sexual harassment and assault to flourish.
For decades, Antarctica has been a masculine realm in popular imagination. These female scientists and explorers are trying to change that. Breaking the Ice Ceiling: The Women Working in ...
This is a list of Antarctic women. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. It includes explorers, researchers, educators, administrators and adventurers. They are arranged by the country of their latest citizenship rather than by country of birth.
Christensen played a major role in her husband's Antarctic expeditions. Archaeologist Waldemar Brøgger , wrote in the cover story of the inaugural issue of the Norwegian magazine Verden I Bilder (The World in Pictures): "In all the excursions, Lars and Ingrid Christensen have been united in the undertaking—in thick and thin, in storm and bad ...
Caroline Mikkelsen (20 November 1906 [1] – 15 September 1998, [2] later married Mandel) was a Danish-Norwegian explorer who on 20 February 1935 was the first woman to set foot on Antarctica, [3] although whether this was on the mainland or an island is a matter of dispute.