Look up at the night sky. Somewhere, in a writer’s room or a video game studio, a new Space Damsel is being written. She might be a quantum physicist stuck on a decaying space station. She might be an alien empress negotiating for her people’s freedom while held at blaster-point. She might be a clone waking up in a laboratory with no memory but infinite fury.
Despite the progress made, women still face significant obstacles in pursuing careers in space exploration. Some of the challenges include: space damsels
If you cracked open a sci-fi comic book in the 1950s or watched a serial adventure from the 1930s, you knew exactly what you were getting. The formula was simple: a rocket ship, a menacing alien overlord, and a beautiful woman in a shimmering gown, usually trapped inside a glass tube or chained to a asteroid. Look up at the night sky