Thankfully, things are changing, though women still account for only 15 percent of astronomers worldwide ... stars and was recently named the first female president of the Royal Society of ...

Caroline Herschel, the first English professional female astronomer, made contributions to astronomy that are still important to the field today. But even many astronomers may not recognize her name.

So, she was already world famous because of the Nobel Prize ... “The Glass Universe” took us into the world of female astronomers in the early 1900s at the Harvard Observatory.