One fact that struck the book group about this collection of biographies was that the women all had husbands in the same professional fields. Another theme was that the stories became less depressing as they progressed chrononlogically. Mileva Maric dropped out of school when she became pregnant. Although she and Einstein worked together on scientific problems, he was the big thinker and she was the better mathematician. She became almost totally dependent on Einstein, who eventually abandoned her and their children. Lee Krasner, who came from a very unsupportive family, tirelessly promoted the work of her alchoholic and abusive husband above her own. Maria Mayer was able to keep up with her science although she could not get employment at many universities where her husband was because of nepotism laws. She worked in her husband's lab or with other colleagues (her family was well-connected in academic circles), and never held an academic position until a month before she won the Nobel prize. Denise Scott Brown seems to have had a great working and personal relationship with her husband, but waited many years to have her name added as a partner in the firm. She is known for the revitalization of the Art Deco neighborhood in Miami, and her firm has been selected by the University of Michigan to make a master plan for the Ann Arbor campuses. Although Sandra Day O'Connor had trouble finding a job in a law firm when she graduated from Stanford (many of them offered her a legal secretary position), she has become more famous than her husband.