A Lab of One's Own (2020), with the subtitle One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science is a memoir by Rita R Colwell (b1934), one of the most influential scientists of her generation. The phrase 'a lab of one's own' appeared many decades earlier in The Call (1924) by Edith Ayrton Zangwill whose stepmother was engineer and inventor, Hertha Ayrton (seen here in her lab in 1926) whose battles for recognition informed the writing of the novel.