Crane was Professor of Chemistry; Spivey was Professor of Physics; Pierson was Professor of Chemistry; Weiss was Professor of Biology; and Wood was Professor Emerita of Chemistry.

Topics include women in math and science, university's effort to get women faculty into the science departments, Eileen Solie teaching entire Freshman biology course, Bev Pierson as first tenured woman in Biology and the science building, Anne Woods coping with the old boy's club in graduate school and as only woman on chemistry faculty, Jo Crane's joint appointment for husband and wife, Amy Spivey and spouse applying to separate departments, continuing low proportion of women in physics and math departments, Stacey Weiss and the high proportion of women in environmental studies departments, mentors made more connections according to research interests than gender, the range of career options nowadays for women graduates.