Though she found professional mentors, including a thesis advisor who encouraged her to start her own lab, "the closest I had [to a role model] was Madame Curie and even that was actually Greer Garson, the actress playing her in the movie!

[2] She was active in the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) for decades and served in a variety of roles, including on the executive board (1974-6) and as President (2008-9).

[3] Leboy experienced explicit discrimination, told outright as a postdoc that neither she nor any other woman would be hired as an Assistant Professor.

In the early 2000s, decades after "the really hard stuff" had been done to address sexism, Leboy doubted the relevance of AWIS--"and then Larry Summers opened his mouth."

[3] In 2012, the Phoebe Leboy Professional Development Award was created by the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research to support a female young investigator living outside the United States.