kit3d ago

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
Show threadForse (he/him)3d ago
@hypostase @olivia I went through a whole master degree in physics without ever hearing about Emmy Noether WTF!!!!
That woman was a fucking genius.
Show threadPieter Kuiper 🌍🇳🇱

@forse
In physics masters courses, surely Noether’s theorem should have been mentioned? When I first heard of it, I suppose I assumed that this was a guy. There would not have been a portrait in the textbook.

@hypostase @olivia

Apr 8 at 7:48amWeb
Show threadForse (he/him)1d ago

@pietkuip

Nope.
I didn't even know about the existence of her theorem until someone mentioned it many years after my degree.