The best-selling author of The Fangirls Guide to the Galaxy presents a fun and feminist look at the brilliant, brainy and totally rad women in history who broke barriers as scientists, engineers, mathematicians, adventurers and inventors, along with interviews with real-life women in STEM careers.

Women of science: Wang Zhenyi -- Ada Lovelace -- Lise Meitner -- Emmy Noether -- Alice Ball -- Women of medicine: Jacqueline Felice -- De Almania -- Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell -- Ogino Ginko -- Anandibai Joshi -- Marie Equi -- Women of espionage: Brita Tott -- Mary Bowser -- Sarah Emma Edmonds -- Elvira Chaudoir -- Noor Inayat Khan -- Women of innovation: Huang Daopo -- Margaret Knight -- Miriam Benjamin -- Bessie Blount Griffin -- Mary Sherman Morgan -- Women of adventure: Maria Sibylla Merian -- Annie Smith Peck -- Ynes Mexia -- Annie Londonderry -- Bessie Coleman.