... women (Wieser, 2002). However, this does not imply that women had never dealt with scientific issues. Besides, there had been women since antiquity dealing with either masculine or feminine branches. For example, Eccello of Lucania is a mathematician and natural philosopher from fourth century B.C.; Abrotelia is a Greek Pythagorean philosopher from fifth century; lived in fourteenth century Catherine of Siena, a medical women and Gilette of Narbonne, a daughter of a physician, is a physician (Ogilvie and Harvey, 2000). Actually, science has been a matter for all people since it affects everyone's life and this fact is more understood in the last century, as more women is occupied in academics besides many men. Taking all these into account, this paper will explain how women attempted to science and academia and discuss increasing number of women scientists in Turkey, Finland and Soviet Russia, their motivating factors and obstacles in their scientific and social lives; exaggerated and hidden reasons. Searching throughout the history, ...

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