The sky is for everyone: women astronomers in their own words

Beginnings

Anne Pyne Cowley (PhD, 1963) : navigating my life with the stars

Ann Merchant Boesgaard (PhD, 1966) : making things work

Sidney Wolff (PhD, 1966) : changing the landscape

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (PhD, 1968) : kites rise against the wind

Virginia Trimble (PhD, 1968) : breaking through the telescopic glass ceiling

Roberta M. Humphreys (PhD, 1969) : be your own advocate

Silvia Torres-Peimbert (PhD, 1969) : an astronomer in Mexico

Neta A. Bahcall (PhD, 1970) : my life in astronomy

Catherine Cesarsky (PhD, 1971) : equations, satellites, and telescopes

Judith (Judy) Gamora Cohen (PhD, 1971) : a long and winding road

Judith Lynn Pipher (PhD, 1971) : taking advantage of opportunity

Gillian (Jill) Knapp (PhD, 1972) : Princeton 1984

Patricia Ann Whitelock (PhD, 1976) : the southern half of the sky

Anneila I. Sargent (PhD, 1977) : a long way for a wee lassie

Martha P. Haynes (PhD, 1978) : hands-on adventures with telescopes : from the backyard to Cerro Chajnantor

France Anne Córdova (PhD, 1979) : The learn'd astronomer discovers the policy world

Dina Prialnik (PhD, 1980) : from stars to comets and back

Beatriz Barbuy (PhD, 1982) : from stargazing the Southern Cross to probing the depths of the history of the Milky Way

Rosemary (Rosie) F. G. Wyse (PhD, 1983) : a journey through space and time

Bożena Czerny (PhD, 1984) : a fortunate sequence of events

Ewine F. van Dishoeck (PhD, 1984) : building a worldwide astrochemistry community

Wendy L. Freedman (PhD, 1984) : my astronomical journey

Meg Urry (PhD, 1984) : the gentlemen and me

Cathie Clarke (PhD, 1987) : an astronomer (not a pirate!) of Penzance

Saeko S. Hayashi (PhD, 1987) : from six meters to thirty meters, ever expanding horizons

Gražina Tautvaišienė (PhD, 1988) : the unfading joy of being an astronomer

Carole Mundell (PhD, 1995) : inspired by a maths dress

Gabriela (Gaby) González (PhD, 1995) : gravitational love

Vicky Kalogera (PhD, 1997) : not taking "no" for an answer : learning how to persist and persevere with a smile

Priyamvada Natarajan (PhD, 1999) : adventures mapping the dark universe

Dara J. Norman (PhD, 1999) : on becoming an astronomer and advancing science

Sara Seager (PhD, 1999) : adventures in the search for other earths

Hiranya Peiris (PhD, 2003) : from serendip to serendipity

Poonam Chandra (PhD, 2005) : a train to the stars

Xuefei Chen (PhD, 2005) : staring at the stars

Shazrene S. Mohamed (PhD, 2009) : the sky is for everyone

Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew (PhD, 2010) : flipping tables from the Sonoran Desert to the stars

Postlude.