Women were in the neuroscience lab. Just not in the data

This week, I spoke at an International Women’s Day event about women’s brain health. I began by pointing out that women have been in neuroscience for generations. More than half of my undergraduate neuroscience class were women. But we haven’t always been inside the data. We’ve run labs, taught students and published research for decades. Yet our own biology, from puberty to pregnancy to menopause, was often treated as a complication rather than something worth studying directly. But that’s all.