Historical problems of travel for women geologists

From unsuitable clothes to lack of chaperones, from harassment to lack of proper funding, throughout history women geologists have encountered difficulties travelling to their field locations or working in the field, whether these locations were close by or abroad. Most early female geologists were able to avoid many difficulties because they were protected through working locally, where their high social standing was known and respected, or because they worked in a team with husband, father or brother. However, the problem was to grow in the second half of the nineteenth century, when women started to appear as students and professionally trained geologists. This feature explores the difficulties of female geologists undertaking fieldwork from the late nineteenth to the mid‐twentieth century.