type40capsule:The History of Women in Science Is Hidden in Plain SightBy searching through footnotes
type40capsule:The History of Women in Science Is Hidden in Plain SightBy searching through footnotes, researchers found female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions to genetics.In science, the question of who gets credit for important work—fraught in any field—is set down on paper, for anyone to see. Authorship, given pride of place at the top of scientific papers, can advance reputation and careers; credits buried in the rarely read acknowledgments section do not.Over the last few years, a team of students led by Emilia Huerta-Sánchez from Brown University and Rori Rohlfs from San Francisco State University have been searching through two decades’ worth of acknowledgments in genetics papers and discovering women who were never given the credit that would be expected for today’s researchers. They identified dozens of female programmers who made important but unrecognized contributions. Some were repeatedly thanked in the acknowledgments of several papers, but were never recognized as authors. They became literal footnotes in scientific history, despite helping to make that history.Read more -- source link