alt Hacker NewsShe is not an example, she was hardly written out of science history, there were theorems named after her etc. That some people discriminated against her doesn't mean she is an example of the Matilda effect.
She is not an example, she was hardly written out of science history, there were theorems named after her etc. That some people discriminated against her doesn't mean she is an example of the Matilda effect.
She had also two things working against her at the time: her gender and a Jewish family background.
I forget her name, but there was a Soviet psychiatrist who pioneered research into autistic children before Hans Asperger. She was female, Jewish and from the USSR, and I think barely acknowledged even within the Iron Curtain countries. Someone here may remember her.