The Matilda Effect, is this phenomenon where women who contribute to the advancement of scientific research are sidelined and have their work stolen by their male counterpart because their status as women does not give them all the attention they should have.
Here, paying tribute to them and reminding that science was not built solely thanks to men, but also thanks to these pioneers, researchers and inventors whose contributions deserve to be recognized and passed on.
Katherine Johnson, a woman who managed to bring Man to the Moon.
Thanks to her calculations, she enabled the mission's success by...
Women of science in literature, between invisibility and recognition.
But what about women who have changed our vision of the world?
Popularization of her theory,
when we mention the American space conquest, names like Neil Armstrong or John Glenn often come up.
Yet, in the shadows, a woman marked this history with her genius for numbers.
Hidden Figures brought to light,
for a long time the history of science has favored male narratives, leaving in the shadows women who were nevertheless essential to major advances.
Women of Science by Anna Cabanel, giving back their place to the forgotten of history.
Anna Cabanel's objective is clear, to show that science has never been the business of men alone.
