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2026-04-06 10:55 UTC
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@olivia@scholar.social 2026-04-06 10:58
Which of course by the way OF COURSE is no excuse at all, but a systematic exclusion — mutatis mutandis for people of colour and more — cryptogyny, the hiding of women's contributions to science, technology, engineering, and medicine: "although three men received the Nobel Prize for penicillin, women participated significantly in the team effort that brought the drug to medical usefulness." https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.5501032.6 17/
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@phillmv@hachyderm.io 2026-04-06 12:41
@olivia cryptogyny is an interesting word! is there a similarly pithy name for the process of pushing women out? you mention great man theorizing, whereby popular retellings obscure or reattribute contributions to the target of the story; i had an experience this weekend that made me think of other emergent behaviour…