ABSTRACT
It is an honor and a pleasure to contribute to this celebratory volume, and I am grateful to the editors for their efforts. The temptation to discuss non-technical aspects of our profession and discipline has caught me too, and I have, with some trepidation, decided to look at the past, present and future of statistical science through a gender-biased lens. In the past fifty years, a great deal has changed for the better, for the position of women in science and in statistical science, but I believe we still have some way to go.
