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Her most famous novel, A Superfluous Woman, was published in 1894. This was called an immoral tale by some male critics of the time. The plot of the novel focused partly on a story about the effects of the degeneration of the aristocratic classes on the women who were forced to marry them for money.
Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story is a 2017 book by science journalist Angela Saini. The book discusses the effect of sexism on scientific research, and how that sexism influences social beliefs. [1] [2] Inferior was launched in June 2017 at the Royal Academy of Engineering. [3]
Both women and men are capable of performing extraordinary feats, but there are some things the females of our species do better. Here are 7 of them, according to science. Number 7. Seeing colors ...
Matilda effect. The Matilda effect is a bias against acknowledging the achievements of women scientists whose work is attributed to their male colleagues. This phenomenon was first described by suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826–1898) in her essay, "Woman as Inventor" (first published as a tract in 1870 and in the North American Review in 1883).
Their article introduced three areas of scholarship: critiques of gender bias in science, a history of women in science, and social science data and public policy considerations on the status of women in the science. [1] In the 1980s, feminist science studies had become more philosophical, corresponding to a shift in many fields of academic ...
What Shall We Do With our Daughters? Superfluous Women and Other Lectures, Mary A. Livermore (1883) [96] The Iniquity of State Regulated Vice, Catherine Booth (1884) [62] "The Need of Liberal Divorce Laws" from the North American Review, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1884) [97] The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Friedrich ...
"H. J. Mozans, in his Woman in Science, gives us a most comprehensive survey of the scientific activity and attainments of women. Primarily inspired to his investigation by extensive travels in Greece and Italy, the author begins with the learned women of ancient Greece-Hypatia, Sappho, and Aspasea, and of somewhat less widespread fame, Gorgo, Andromeda, and Corinna-and passes on from them to ...
In 1998, her book Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century was listed in the American Library Association Outstanding Reference Sources. The book, which contains profiles of 186 women, was described by Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe as follows: "What comes across is the great love of doing science that many women have shared ...