We are very honoured to announce our collaboration with "Women In STEM"

𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿: Akanksha

“𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑤𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛’𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑛𝑜 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑠” - 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺

Women In STEM is a page focusing on the forgotten contributions of women to science. It’s based on the Matilda Effect, which is basically the refusal to acknowledge a woman’s contributions to science, instead crediting her discoveries to her male counterparts as it was assumed that a woman could not have possibly done this.

The effect was first described by Matilda Jocelyn Gage, and the term was formally coined by Dr Margaret W. Rossiter in her paper “The Matthew Matilda Effect in Science” published in 1993.

This page focuses on the contributions that these women made, despite the bigots of their time and the incessant sexism they faced in all spheres of life.

Science is supposed to be an objective field, focusing on data and proof, but unfortunately, it fell prey to sexist stereotypes for a very long time, and it is only recently that things have begun looking up for female scientists.

It is important to celebrate female scientists of today. But it is equally important to remember and honour those who came before us, who lit torches so that we could see, who ran barefoot through the dense forest so that we could walk on a defined path.

These women in history deserve to be honoured and recognized for their contributions, especially those discoveries which we usually attribute to men, for example, the DNA structure, nuclear fission, treatment to anaemia, agar and even Global Warming.

𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 @𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯.𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸!