The Matilda effect is a bias against acknowledging the achievements of women in science and having their credit away by men. Did you know that it wasn’t the Lumière brothers that were the first filmmakers in history? They just filmed some scenes from their lives. The idea to write scripts and do stunts was thought up by an ordinary secretary named Alice Guy. But her name is known only to the most loyal movie fans.
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