"By the time I die, my brain shall weigh just as much as a man's. I hereby take my solemn oath. June 4th 1877." Those words were written in the diary of M. Carey Thomas, who had gone to a lecture with her mother and heard with indignation that a man's brain actually weighed a few ounces more than a woman's. She went on to become an educator, linguist and was the President of Bryn Mawr College...