Women need not apply: gendered institutional change in Antarctica and Outer Space

1983 was a year of firsts for women in two of the world’s leading institutions of scientific exploration: NASA sent a woman into space for the first time, and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) sent women to Antarctica for the first time. But by 1986, while female astronauts had continued to launch into space, women remained barred from applying to nearly three-quarters of BAS’s advertised positions. An author writing in The Geographical...