Yvonne Brill spent decades launching missions to the moon and to Mars. In 2011 President Obama awarded her the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. But damn, that stroganoff. And lest we forget those eight years she took off to nurture her offspring (which didn’t actually happen; she just went part-time). In the eyes of the Times, however, those trappings of traditional femininity not only defined Brill more than her contributions to the cosmos, they were—as the “but” at the start of their second paragraph implies—in direct contradiction. The Times didn’t get away with their sexist
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