History is all about men and their accomplishments. Usually, women and gay men have been left out of the history books. Even in this day and age, we have to go digging to find the women who were part of the creation of our present-day society. This is quite shameful, if you ask me. Is it fair that Einstein gets all the credit for the theories he proposed when he, himself, credits them as collaborative work with him and his first wife, Mileva Maric?
MSNBC.com is highlighting women in physics in this article. They talk about Marie Curie and who might be the next female Einstein.
It's sad that the work of truly great women seems shrouded in time. Voltaire, a man who inspired the French Revolution with his literary work, gets more fame that Emilie du Chatelet, his mistress. That's how she is remembered, despite the fact that Emilie translated the Mathematica Principia into French and spurred the dissemination of Newton's ideas across Europe. For that, she only needed to understand high-level mathematics but several languages as well. She is regarded as Mrs. Newton even though she never actually met Newton in her lifetime. However, without her help, Newton's ideas would have taken many more centuries to reach public appeal then they did.
Yes, the women are there in herstory, but will they ever be included in history? Will we ever have a full us-story?
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