I learned a new word today, cryptogyny.

I’m going to have to sit with it for a bit.

It’s not that I was unfamiliar with the context. Practically anywhere you care to look there are women whose work has been ignored, hidden or stolen. Women who’ve not been given the credit they deserved, or very quickly been dropped.

I mean, I really would like to know why I never learned about Emmy Noether in school, right next to Albert Einstein, even though he recognised her genius.

Cryptogyny. Use it when you need to.

https://olivia.science/cryptogyny/

Via @olivia

Cryptogyny

On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.

https://olivia.science

@hypostase @olivia this is a very important word, and reminded me of it's equal opposite:

Jineology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jineology

The repairative study of women's contributions to society throughout history and in modernity. This being the antidote to that feels important to note.

Jineology - Wikipedia

@foundseed @hypostase thank you will read up