DTM’s Vera Rubin is featured in the October 24, 2005, issue of Newsweek in which women’s leadership roles in the 21st Century are highlighted. Rubin’s piece, titled “How I Got There: Vera Rubin,” describes her far-reaching astronomy career—one which began at a time when there were very few women in the sciences. Describing her time at Cornell, where she earned a master’s degree in astronomy, Vera writes, “I had no women classmates in astronomy and one or two in physics.”

The first female staff member at DTM, Rubin worked many years to increase the number of women working here. Still, as she writes at the end of the article, “The statistics for women scientists are pathetic. This is a battle young women may have to fight. Thirty years ago we thought the battle would be over soon, but equality is as elusive as dark matter.” The full article can be accessed here.