ABSTRACT
This book began by asking where were women in science and why there seems to be a dissonance between the two. From this came the questioning throughout the book of what constituted scientific knowledge, who decided it and on what grounds, who had access to it, who were marginalised and why and what has been the impact. Such questions necessarily explored how scientific knowledge is produced and disseminated, what part education has played in both the production of scientific knowledge and the participation of females in science and how far scientific developments themselves have been both influenced by and further affected notions of gender. The significance of the interrelationship of science, gender and education in the development of all three has been an underlying theme.
