Throughout history, the female trailblazers who have made monumental achievements in science, literature, and innovation have been systemically minimized or forgotten. Our guests this week discuss how societal biases erased women’s intellectual contributions and why recognizing these female geniuses is essential to completing our understanding of human progress.
Guest Information:
- Janice Kaplan, author, The Genius of Women
- Catherine Whitlock, author, Ten Women Who Changed Science and the World
Your list may have included men like Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, or Stephen Hawking. but…why is that? Is it only because men are geniuses? Hardly. and what makes a person a genius, anyway? Is the classification easy to quantify?
Italian scientist Rita won a Nobel prize in physiology in 1986. She practiced her craft from her bedroom in Italy while hiding from the Nazis during WWII.
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