3M Productions

When people think of a scientist, they often picture the cliche image of a white man wearing a lab coat and glasses. "Not the Science Type" is a four-art documentary series that will quickly disabuse you of that notion. In the series you will meet four amazing female scientists who are ushering in a new future, as they address critical global and local challenges. These brilliant women have faced sexism, racism and ageism in their professional journeys and in response, they have shattered stereotypes with each new innovation, patent and award.

The figure stood on the tops of two twenty-foot ladders, one foot on each ladder, and leaned against the outside wall of a warehouse. Two assistants took ten rolls of two-inch masking tape and stuck the figure to the wall, defying gravity, until sundown. –Jill Scott on Taped, 1975