Mastodawn

Any time women make something lucrative, men push them out of the field. A 1983 MIT paper documented that purge in computer science: https://simson.net/ref/1983/barriers.pdf

See also https://mastodon.social/@Sheril/109545727584656667 for "beer brewer" becoming "witch", Julia Child giving way to Gordon Ramsey, Sarah Taber's great thread about "egg money", the origin of the word "spinster" and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire...

Once there's money in it, douchebros terf out the founders then claim to have discovered what others invented.

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Rob Landley 1d ago

The University of California didn't just explain how they're covering their exposed canals with solar panels to save billions of gallons of water from evaporating, they interviewed the woman behind it rather than appointing a man to take the credit.

https://youtu.be/EtJzOtOpYdo

California’s new solar panels do MORE than generate power

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Howard Chu @ Symas

@landley great that they're finally doing it, but it's a no-brainer. First done in India 12 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_canal

California’s new solar panels do MORE than generate power

Solar canal - Wikipedia