Women scientists frequently suffer being effectively erased from history. Even if they are not, they tend to be subjected to the everyday sexism that undermines the jobs they do.
Now a campaigner has put together a series of tweets describing some of the most famous male scientists ever in the same manner as their female counterparts.
Originally published in Spanish, the author of these short bios, @Daurmith, said: “So, I made a small brouhaha recently in Twitter and I thought I’d share it in English.
“I started to write small bios of famous (male) scientists as they’d be written had they been women.”
He told Buzzfeed: "I wrote the bios as an exercise ‘through the glass’, so to speak. I find it productive, and a bit cathartic, to use women’s tropes on men, à la Hawkeye project. I didn’t want to achieve anything special and honestly thought they would get quickly lost."
