THE MATILDA EFFECT

THE MATILDA EFFECT

Lorenzo Galietta and Pietro Giolli

INDEX

Lack of recognition for female scientists

What is the Matilda Effect?

Men in the spotlight

How to fight the Matilda Effect?

The Gender Citation Gap

What is the Matilda Effect?

• Who is Matilda?

• Who coined this term?

• What is the main problem?

Lack of recognition for female scientists

• Who is Lise Meitner?

• Why are the women less considered?

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Men in the spotlight

• The Great Man Theory

• "Science is extremely collaborative"

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

• The cases of Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Esther Lederberg

ESTHER LEDERBERG

The Gender Citation Cup

• What is the Gender citation Cup?

• Statistical data

• Man’s work as most respected

How to fight The Matilda Effect?

• Raise awareness

• Celebrate women's achievements

• Equal opportunities and resources

SITOGRAFY

• https://www.torinoscienza.it/personaggi/jocelyn-bell-burnell

• https://www.z3xmi.it/pagina.phtml?_id_articolo=13073-Donne-di-Scienza-Esther-Zimmer-Lederberg.html
• https://www.reverso.net/traduzione-testo

• https://www.lostwomenofscience.org/news/the-matilda-effect-how-women-are-becoming-invisible-in-science

• https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin
• https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner
• https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_Joslyn_Gage

THANKS!

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