How The Matilda Effect Removes Women in STEM From History | Beyond the Scenes
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The Matilda Effect
How receptive are people to this new information when you present it? We live in an age of trying to write a lot of history that was written by biased people. So, yeah, people are incredibly receptive. In fact, we have a lost women of science hotline. The emergency line emergency. You a woman who said your work. No, no, they're dead. All our women are dead, by the way, so they can't speak for themselves. And I stopped sort of calling it revisionist history. It's history. Like it's just. Yeah, we don't say we're correcting the historical record. We say we are revisiting the historical record."
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