Setanta wrote on Mar 26
th, 2017 at 12:01am:
mothra wrote on Mar 25
th, 2017 at 11:56pm:
Setanta wrote on Mar 25
th, 2017 at 11:48pm:
mothra wrote on Mar 25
th, 2017 at 11:46pm:
Researchers. Obviously.
How so? You think we only know of them because someone researched them an uncovered them?
Yes. That is precisely what i am saying.
Take, for example your reaction to my talking about them I was accused of "whining".
Yet these are women who fought against institutionalised sexism (are you denying there was institutionalised sexism?) to do great things ... that men got the credit for. Their names were intentionally left of academic papers. Their husbands or colleagues were credited with their work.
Tell me Setanta, did you read their stories? Or are you simply reacting to the 'principle'?
I'm reacting to the principle. Men and women get their credit ripped off. You can name 11 women, if I did a bit of a search I'm sure I could find more men with their creds given to someone else. Why are you not sticking up for men that have had their creds for accomplishments transferred? How about 22 people that have had their accomplishments credited to others?
By simply reacting to the principle (thanks for admitting it), you have missed the fact that some of these women were intentionally left off of academic papers
because they were women.
If a woman managed to get an education and a job (no mean feat) in years past, she would find herself prohibited from publishing in academic journals, receiving any funding and bereft of any wider community recognition of what she achieved.
By
virtue of her being a woman.
You yourself, a page back, cited the moon landing as the domain of men. Yet you overlook Margaret Hamilton, the lead software engineer for Project Apollo; Katherine Johnson, an aerospace technologist at NASA; Dottie Lee, an aerothermodynamics subsystems manager; Ivy Hooks, a member of the original Space Shuttle design team and also Johnson Space Center director and director of engineering ... to name a few.
Yet you assumed it was all men. Why was that Setanta?
And those women all achieved greatness despite institutionalised sexism, which, i'm sure you would agree, was rife throughout history.