If female characters are restricted to the roles of artist, dancer, waitress, or barista, their potential to generate fiction that explores existentially rich and original worlds also seems restricted.
In the ongoing discussion of groups in sore need of better representation in today’s storytelling, Eileen Pollack urges writers to consider writing about female scientists in fiction. She tackles the age-old stereotypes of men who won’t read women and women who won’t read science and argues that the work of science must be embodied in more varied human forms to reach more people.
