The Power of Recognizing Women in Science

We tend to think of history as something that is about great geniuses having ideas that are decades ahead of their time and changing the world through their brilliance. We need to move away from the idea of disrupters and start zeroing in on the very many contributors. This has been lost. It's not about recovering an individual woman who was slighted or ored, we're not trying to just replace the lone male genius with female versions of the same thing. And what we do here instead as chroniclers of and participants in society, we have to acknowledge the countless people who go unrecognized for all kinds of work that enables innovation.