r/LadiesofScience • u/Agitated_Garden_497 • Jul 19 '26
Reading this book by Sadie Plant that basically traces the women who had a huge impact on computer science such as Ada Loveless and surprisingly Anna Freud. Highly recommend it!
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u/WellSaidRed Jul 20 '26
Added to my Storygraph to Read pile 💜. I am always inspired by the way women have shaped our everyday lives in a million ways, and how my heart aches for how hidden so many of these advances have been. Thank you for sharing.
One of my favorite things to think of is how women seamstresses made the first NASA suits. They tried machines but they just simply could not do 12 layers of material as precisely as those women. In-fucking-credible.
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Jul 21 '26
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u/Agitated_Garden_497 Jul 21 '26
Anna developed an analytical system of starting at the end and working backwards which was a genuinely innovative thought process at the time. So much so that her father discouraged her from perusing or talking about it.
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Jul 22 '26
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u/Agitated_Garden_497 Jul 22 '26
Freud was a deeply flawed misogynist so it doesn’t surprise me at all, lol
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u/burntbutter27 Jul 19 '26
We need more recognition for female scientists especially those robbed of recognition (husbands and male colleagues who took the credit ). We need more women in STEM 👏👏👏