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Equal Pay Day and Revisiting the Matilda Effect
Miriam Krause
Did you know that, in addition to being Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday, today (March 14) is Equal Pay Day for 2023? As publicized by the National Committee on Pay Equity, “This date symbolizes how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.” This Census Bureau site has more information and tons of related resources to help understand this issue, and the AAUW has an important calendar of Equal Pay Days throughout the year, such as Black Women’s Equal Pay Day on July 27 and Native Women’s Equal Pay Day on November 30.
In honor of raising awareness of lack of recognition and compensation for the work of women in the sciences, we’re re-posting this blog post by Prof. Christy Haynes, which was originally published on International Women’s Day in March of 2017:
What is the “Matilda Effect,” and How Can We Improve Recognition of Women Scientists?
originally posted on March 8, 2017
As a woman in science who has experienced significant success along with a few obvious gender-specific barriers during my career, I try hard not to view my professional world through the lens
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Erasing Women do too much Science? There’s a Name for That
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An interview with five women scientists, moderators of the IPPOG Masterclass on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Fabiola Cacciatore, 11 February 2022
In 1993, Cornell University science historian Margaret Rossiter coined the term “Matilda Effect” to describe the lack of recognition given to the contributions of women scientists. The effect was named after suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage, whose 1893 essay “Woman as an Inventor” protested the common assertion that “woman… possesses no inventive or mechanical genius.”
Over the years, this phenomenon has seen many women, especially in the scientific sector, being deprived of the attribution of a professional contribution. One could easily construct a long list of names of great female minds deprived of prizes, awards, promotions and more, just because their presence in science was not on a par with that of a man doing equivalent work.
Think of Jocelyn Bell, they have taken a Nobel Prize from her hands only because she is a woman and only a student!
A sense of injustice and disparity still surrounds many women in science. This was one of the key motivations for the creation by the United Nations, in 2015, of the International Day of Women