Let's see: you got your entrenched patriarchy and a dim understanding of the nature of matter. Might as well upset both.
It's dumbfounding, flabbergasting, and flummox ing that society used to be as stupid as it was: like when, a scant century ago, Marie Curie, one of the most brilliant and kind and era–defining people of the past millennium was besmirched and belittled for the fact that she was a she, that there was a woman making the most significant scientific discoveries rather than some old white dude. As such, her life is an inspiration in the truest sense––that is, 79 years after her death, she's still breathing life into us.