Science isn’t such a bad route to fame and fortune for women. Women in science are unusual simply because they are female, so you will be noticed and remembered. And the media love talking to female scientists, so you could get your face on telly and become a 'science guru'. Or why not use your communication skills to write the definitive textbook or popular science book? If you are really after immortality you will want to win a Nobel Prize. These are awarded for original groundbreaking work. Others will honour you too; the element Curium was named after Marie Curie and her husband Pierre. If you devise a theory you can put your own name to it and keep your fingers crossed no one comes up with a better one for the next few hundred years. To really make a fortune invent something that everyone wants. Get started now at the British Female Inventor of the Year Award: http://www.bfiy.com/ There are a number of female role models who have made it in science – you can read about them on these websites: Jane Goodall has studied chimps for 40 years and campaigns to save their environment. http://www.janegoodall.org/ "Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved" – Dr. Jane Goodall Meave Leakey is a paleontologist. She found what is thought to be one of the missing link between apes and humans. http://www.leakeyfoundation.org/foundation/f1_6.jsp Charlotte Uhlenbroek, zoologist, writer and TV presenter. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/programmes/who/ charlotte_uhlenbroek.shtml Carol Vorderman, engineer, TV presenter and millionaire: http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/careers/interviews/isocarol.html Susan Blackmore, freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster: http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk Susan Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain: http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/duncan1.html And many more: http://www.sdsc.edu/Publications/ScienceWomen/

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