Adversaries: Alice Lee

Womanica

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History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Alice Lee (1859-1939) was a statistician and one of the first women to earn a Doctorate of Science from the University of London. Her dissertation, published in 1900, helped disprove the widely held belief that skull capacity was linked to intelligence.

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0:32.0	Hello from Wonder Media. podcasts. series, women who fought for their place in history, whether they fought to get to the top of their sport,
0:45.0	against how society perceived them, or fought with each other to be champions.
0:50.0	We're talking about women who broke barriers and sometimes did seemingly impossible or unspeakable
0:54.9	things to carve out their place in history.
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1:08.4	In 1887, in Popular Science Monthly, psychologist George J. Romanes wrote,
1:11.6	seeing that the average brain weight of women is about five ounces less than that
1:15.8	of men, on merely an anatomical ground we should be prepared to expect a marked inferiority
1:20.8	of intellectual power in the former.
1:23.8	This wasn't a niche opinion.
1:25.8	During the late 19th century, it was widely believed that women were biologically inferior
1:29.8	to men.
1:30.8	The prevailing theory was that the size and shape of a person's head indicated their
1:34.5	intelligence.
1:37.0	Today we're talking about the statistician who made it her mission to debunk this theory. Please meet Alice Lee.
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