Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history
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Why Women Matter So Much to History
For much of human history, the discipline of history has been written by men. Many people that we know from history, we actually know because of artists writing about them or composing music to them or poetry about them. So in a way, it's the values that matter. But of course, there are many quiet and lovely men transforming the world. Scientists, particularly you could say in that. And in science, this lack of women being visible is known as the Matilda effect. It's a phrase coined by the American science historian Margaret Rossiter in the 1990s. She's kind of one of many, many examples in science. The fossil hunter Mary Anning who is now much better
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