As all of us at SMART Recovery celebrate Women’s History Month, it’s a wonderful opportunity to highlight the amazing leadership and accomplishments of so many talented and dedicated women in the addiction sciences, treatment, STEM, and public policy fields.
Their accomplishments are even more impressive when you consider that the playing field was not always a level one. Ivy League Universities did not admit female students until 1969. Yale didn’t grant a woman a B.A. Degree in Physics until 1978. That woman, Eileen Pollack, has written an eye-opening book on the subject of why women have traditionally been underrepresented in STEM called The Only Women in the Room.
But times have, and are, changing - and women’s leadership in the addiction and recovery fields is more evident and important than ever. Here are just a few of the amazing women working in these fields as scientists, therapists, and authors - all making substantial contributions to the quest to better understand and treat addiction. |