What is the Matilda Effect ?

A women scientist make a discovery

All of her work is attributed to a male coworker

It doesn't give a correct representation of women

More on The Matilda Effect

The Exemple of Jocelyn Bell Burnell , a britain astrophysicist who discovered Pulsars.

Jocelyn's theory on the pulsars and the context that lead her to discover it.

Depending on the era, Woman are represented differently in litterature.

Discrimination lived by women scientist and the questioning of a science presented as egalitarian.