“While… many of the world’s most important inventions are due to woman, the proportion of feminine inventors is much less … More
Tag: The Matilda Effect
Forget About Jack, You Don’t Know Matilda (but you should)
Matilda Joslyn Gage, who wrote about how cumulative advantage (a principle not named until a century later) erased women and their achievements from history, was herself erased from history because of cumulative advantage. The reason why You Don’t Know Matilda involves the Bible and science.
A Bit of History 