O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?

What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.

Women are under-represented in science in general, and in the areas where women are working with men, they tend to have supporting roles; they're rarely in leadership roles. In the Academies of Science , if you look in the US, the numbers are appalling.

While bright-eyed science watches round.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.