http://www.salon.com/2013/04/01/ground_breaking_female_rocket_scientist_sure_could_cook/

Easiest quiz you’ll take today: Let’s say an eminent scientist and inventor, an individual who worked on the first American satellite designs, dies after a long and distinguished career. Why would the first thing mentioned in the New York Times obituary be in praise of said scientist’s cooking skills? Did you say, because the scientist was a woman? You win! And by “win,” I mean, get to bang your head against your desk in a slow and methodical manner until the rage subsides.

When Yvonne Brill, who died last week at age 88, was remembered in the New York Times over the weekend, the first paragraph of her obituary described her as a woman who “made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. She was also, according to her son Matthew, ‘The world’s best mom.’” It was only in the second graph that the paper of record got around to mentioning that stroganoff champ, husband follower and awesome mom Brill also “invented a propulsion system to help keep communications satellites from slipping out of their orbits.” Oh, that too.