The profiles and fields of expertise gathered by GEAS are diverse and echo not only scientific merits and accomplishments. Some of our main characters, like la Chata Campa, Carmina Virgili and Kathryn Dwyer, were women with a great social conscience, leaving an important mark on the politics of their time. Others, like Florence Bascom or Mary Leakey, played a fundamental role in transmitting knowledge to future generations, and particularly to women. Nívola Uyà has managed to capture in her illustrations the souls and diversity of these ladies of the hammer and the compass. The pioneers are presented to our eyes in the middle of their work, authentic, full of nuance and surrounded by a multitude of details disguised in earthly, oceanic and stellar brushstrokes. Certainly, the veteran women scientists that encounter GEAS will see themselves described in these pages in many places. All of them, known and anonymous, have made and continue to make possible the unstoppable advance of women’s rights in science. To the young readers, who someday will transmit this knowledge to others, we offer the wise advice of the Australian geologist Dorothy Hill: ‘Do not wait for the world to offer you what you might think to be your due.’ Rosa María Mateos & Ana Ruiz Constán
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