How to get more women in science, with Athene Donald
Nature Podcast
The Marginalia of Mary Astell
I was astonished by the story of philosopher and writer Mary Astell in the late 1600s. Her notes on Rene Descartes were lost, but have now been rediscovered. We cannot know how many other women's books annotated or not have been tossed away over the intervening years. They just didn't have the opportunities. And I think there may well have been other middle-class, stochastic, erratic women who did read and think that we won't never know.
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