" Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained." Madam Curie
             There has always been a gender bias in society. In the past women were not
             allowed to go to school or any place that would benefit them educationally. They were the
             caretakers and homemakers of society and this remained so for a very long period of time.
             Then there was the Women's Right's movement and women began to fight for an equal
             right to do anything that men were allowed to do. The hardest part of this fight was
             actually going against the odds and doing the opposite of what men felt that they should
             do no matter what was said. A great example of this is the gender issues between Rosalind
             Franklin and the men of Cambridge during the time when the structure of DNA was still
             In James Watson's publication of The Double Helix Watson tells the story of the
             issues that were present during the race for DNA. There were a total of five main players
             when it came down to who was the closest to discovering the double helix. Of these five
             players, there was only one woman, Rosalind Franklin.
             Franklin was a woman playing in a " man's" world. She was an excellent
             crystallographer and was not easily bended when it came to her work. While studying at
             Cambridge she was asked by a fellow scientist, Maurice Wilkins, to teach him the
             techniques of crystallography, but she refused. Thus she was known as a troublemaker for
             refusing to help him. In the book it is said that she did not exhibit her feminine qualities,
             " Though her features were strong she was not unattractive and might have been quite
             stunning had she taken even a mild interest in her clothes. This she did not." (p23) this is
             to say that perhaps ...