In 1978 Dorothy Needham was approached to write a chapter for Women Scientists: the Road to Liberation, relating her personal experience of the position of women in science. The book was edited by D Richter and published by Macmillan in 1982. 4 files as follows:
1. Correspondence from Richter with drafts of D N’s replies 1978, 1981;
2. D N’s manuscript notes for her contribution. Also includes draft of her letter to Alison Duke, Girton College, asking for information on her student career at Cambridge from 1919, with A D’s reply;
3. Heavily corrected typescript drafts of D N's contribution;
4. 6pp typescript copy as sent, September 1978, also reviews of Women Scientists 1982.