Female scientist (character trope)

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The female scientist is a staple of SF. She has been through several iterations as a cliché:

The mad scientist's beautiful daughter - not a scientist herself, but a loyal assistant; sometimes with some science skills, often a victim of experiments or violence associated with experiments; often the worried person who seeks out the male protagonist for his assistance in locating her missing father - Miranda in The Tempest
The frigid, awkward, unsexed scientist; the mid-20th century vision of the career woman -- Susan Calvin
The sexy librarian style of scientist, who is often a sidechick to the male protagonist.

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