This Day, That Year

Item from March 8, 1984, in China Daily: Polar explorer Li Huamei, the first Chinese woman to travel to the South Pole, plows through the rich ice of Antarctica collecting specimens for research. ...

Li is a research fellow from the Geochemistry Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guiyang, Guizhou province.

Following the pioneering feat of Li Huamei, who is now head of the paleomagnetism lab of the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, more Chinese women have ventured and excelled in fields that used to be dominated by men.