Aurum
This is not new.
The pattern Aurum addresses has a name, and it is older than any of us.
In 1993 the historian Margaret Rossiter gave it a name: the Matilda effect, the systematic crediting of women's work to men. She named it after Matilda Joslyn Gage, who described the same pattern in 1870. What follows is the mechanism Aurum exists to interrupt, visible across nine centuries.
12th century
Trota of Salerno
Wrote on women's medicine at one of Europe's first medical schools. Her work survived inside a collection later attributed to male authors.
1900s
Nettie Stevens
Established that chromosomes determine sex. The finding was widely credited to a senior male colleague working separately.
1938
Lise Meitner
Worked out the physics of nuclear fission. The 1944 Nobel went to her collaborator alone.
1952
Rosalind Franklin
Produced the image that revealed the structure of DNA. It was shown to others without her knowledge, and the prize went elsewhere.
1967
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Discovered pulsars as a graduate student. The 1974 Nobel went to her supervisor.
1993
Margaret Rossiter
Named the pattern, which is the first step to measuring it.
Historical summaries as supplied for this page; individual sources are pending founder review.
None of these women lacked confidence. Every one of them lacked someone in the room saying her name.
What changed, and what did not.
The research caught up in 1998, when the penalty for self-advocacy was measured in a laboratory for the first time. What has not changed is the mechanism. What can change is whether an organisation does anything about it.
Source: Rudman, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1998.
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