Adulthood:

After some time after becoming a professor,  it became clear to Laura that she was still discriminated on because of her sex. Instead of being a teaching professor, the heads of the University thought she would be much better as a symbol, a hostess, the beauty queen of science. They tried to limit her duties to playing hostess and covering up by giving her the title "the Bologna Minerva."(Named after the Roman Goddess of Wisdom) However,  Laura didn't want titles. She wanted to teach. Laura played along with them and in the process made some powerful friends. But when she went home she did exactly what she wanted. She set up a private teaching laboratory in her own house. There she continued to teach and learn in experimental physics. Finally in 1745, at age 34, her years of research started to pay off and she started to get recognition. They finally allowed her to teach what they called "male sciences"(mechanics, hydrometry, and elasticity.) Even the pope nominated her into Benedictine Academy. Sadly, her colleges still thwarted her and she was still not allowed to vote. Even though there was still some discrimination, Laura, from then on, was not questioned about her authority as much. Finally, her fame had spread and two years before her death, she was even appointed to the chair of Experimental Physics at the Institute of Science in Bologna.