Fiona McCade: Who run the world? First-born girls

[theHandpuppet]

6. Just look at Marie Curie's family as an example...

I thought it was incredibly sad that Marie's sister Eve thought of herself as unsuccessful.

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Looking again at Marie Curie’s family tree, we see that it wasn’t as straightforward as it looked. Families rarely are. In fact, Zofia died young, but the grief of her death caused Marie to become an atheist. Who knows if that pushed her even further into the realms of science? Marie herself had two daughters. The elder, Irene, also became a Nobel Laureate in chemistry. The younger, Eve, was a celebrated author, who fought for the French Resistance and worked tirelessly for Unicef. She once remarked: “There were five Nobel Prizes in my family: two for my mother, one for my father, one for [my] sister and brother-in-law and one for my husband. Only I was not successful.”