Indeed women have had to struggle harder in the sciences, as well as in other fields. That is by no means helped by the convention of crediting articles with the last names only! Had you not said otherwise and I would have, in involuntary but automatic sexism, imagined a Mr, instead of a Ms...
Thanks for such a clear and fast response!
I know I have poorly frased my first question as you have very apropriately pointed out. Maybe I should have put it as Inflation having occurred at such a pace that the distance between any two things grew by (way) more than 300 000 km every second...
I have two questions related to inflation, and wonder if there is an answer to any of them:
1- If there was inflation occurring faster than light at any time, so that the universe's radius is larger than aprox. 14 billion light years, then shouldn´t we be seeing some galaxies more than once...