How to do science as a woman and laugh? Insights and lessons from Hungary

It is difficult to write the closing chapter to this multifaceted yet coherent volume. It is multifaceted because the examples and case studies are drawn from many countries around the world and coherent because very similar patterns emerge about the position of women in science, engineering and medicine in the twentieth century. The contributions analyse trends in women’s participation in STEMM, complicating our understanding of what it meant to be in/visible in these fields and documenting the challenges women encountered as well as the strategies they devised to overcome them. Many of these hurdles have changed little in character over the decades. In this final chapter, which also functions as an epilogue, I will add another case study to this impressive collection, that of Hungary, to illustrate continuities in the challenges women have faced and suggest ways forward, discussing and drawing inspiration from the strategies and tactics they have employed to overcome them.