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How The Matilda Effect Removes Women in STEM From History | Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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Dorothy Anderson: A Pathologist in the 1930s

Dorothy Anderson, who is the subject of our first season of physician in the 1930s. She wanted to go into surgery, but surgery was closed to women. Dorothy ended up becoming a pathologist because patients didn't want to see a female doctor. Women, female physicians back then tended to work behind the scenes.

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