Celebrating the Women Who’ve Been Erased from History Books!

Schauer Thoughts

Sarah Schauer & Studio71

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🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Happy Women’s History Month! This week we’re discussing the wonderful women of STEAM (yes, we include the arts here) that have had their work stolen, co-opted, or overlooked by men and the dominant culture. Thank you to all the women in academia, research, creative fields, business, politics, etc. who persist, push back, and put men in check - I absolutely cannot wait to read your stories and studies, I know they’ll be *chefs kiss.* I know I mispronounced a lot in this episode, as always feel free to shoot me a DM or comment with correct pronunciation, I really do appreciate the help. Also yes, I meant to say “retrograde menstruation” not “reverse menstruation” - the world simply escaped me. Make sure to like and subscribe on Youtube, rate me 5 stars on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, any place you’re listening to this podcast. Y’all are the best. Resources: Music as a scientific metaphor for mind and brain https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763426001004 Prescriptive and Descriptive Grammar: Functions, Distinctions, and Pedagogical Relevance https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400585909_Prescriptive_and_Descriptive_Grammar_Functions_Distinctions_and_Pedagogical_Relevance Women’s History Month: Celebrating Trailblazing Women in Science and Advancing Women’s Representation in STEM https://ssp.org/news/womens-history-month/ Matilda effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_effect Woman As An Inventor https://www.jstor.org/stable/25118273?seq=7 Read this if you want true catharsis. 19 Groundbreaking Discoveries by Women That Were Credited to Men https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/g5026/female-discoveries-credited-to-men/ The patent system is failing women when over 90 percent of patents are held by men https://newrepublic.com/article/132327/patent-system-failing-women-90-percent-patents-held-men The theft of women’s art https://www.varsity.co.uk/arts/29055#google_vignette These discoveries saved billions of lives https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/03/the-50-most-important-life-saving-breakthroughs-in-history/ Why Storytelling Is a Leadership Superpower, According To Neuroscientists https://www.forbes.com/sites/carminegallo/2026/03/22/why-storytelling-is-a-leadership-superpower-according-to-neuroscientists/ The women who made modern vaccines work https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/the-women-who-made-modern-vaccines-work Repeatedly occurring retrograde menstruation intensifies central sensitization driven by neuroinflammation in endometriosis models https://www.jci.org/articles/view/194136 Books: Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read - Stanislas Dehaene Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst - Robert M. Sapolsky A Philosophy of Shame - Frederic Gros Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America - Laila Lalami Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi guys, welcome back to Shower Thoughts.
0:10.0	My name is Sarah Shower.
0:11.4	This episode is going to be on Women's History Month, and the women who've made massive contributions in science and medicine, arts, culture, and how most of them had have had
0:22.6	their work stolen by men. I'm super excited to get into this. I really am because I feel like
0:29.9	giving credit where credit is due is such a fun endeavor. But before we get into that,
0:35.1	how's my week been? Good. I went to the Natural History Museum at USC. They have this gemstone and mineral exhibit that I went to go see, and I think it ends in April. And it was just so, so incredible. I got to see so many different gems and minerals and learn about like, you know, cleavage, clarity, you know, transparency, all these
0:56.2	sort of things. It was just so fun. And I went with my butch. We had a nice little date.
1:01.7	And it was kind of, it was really fun. Oh, yeah. Yesterday I had a call with MIT Press about like,
1:09.1	just like a potential like working relationship which is really cool and
1:13.6	I was on the phone with them and they were talking about like sending me books that I was interested
1:17.8	in. I mean DecisionScape is a book that I always recommend by MIT Press so I was mainly just like gushing
1:23.5	over how much I love that book and then I was looking at their new release pages. And I was
1:27.5	like, these sounds so interesting, so cool. And the lady on the other line was like, you know, you probably don't have an interest in textbooks. And I was like, I'm so sorry, ma'am. I'm going to have to stop you right there. I do have an interest in textbooks. If you have anything about neuroanademy, neurophysiology and like I would love to receive a textbook because I have been just kind of
1:45.4	research gating my way through some textbooks. But I'm super excited about that. I love MIT Press regardless. I'm trying to think if I have any books from them today right now. Not from MIT Press, but excited to talk about the books I have in front of me. That was just cool. So, I mean, I don't know if something it's going to have. But I'm just fingers crossed, you know. Yeah, I just love, like, book company is reaching out now and being like, do you know how hard it is to find a book talker who likes nonfiction? And I was like, I do, but also I do have some recommendations for booktakers who like nonfiction if you ever need a list.
2:18.3	Because, like, we are a small community.
2:20.7	And, you know, I'm just going to go ahead and send a list of, like, nonfiction book talkers because it really, like, everyone should get in on the nonfiction scene.
2:29.5	It's really fun.
2:30.9	But I also wanted to talk about some cruel research that I saw this week that was
2:36.6	vindicating. Oh my God. And I'm going to beat this dead horse, but I simply don't care.
2:44.3	Someone finally put it out on Science Direct and I'm going to run with it. So this is a new
2:49.8	piece of research that I am obsessed with from Science Direct.
2:53.7	It was published. It's, oh my gosh, it's coming out in June of 2026. So this was just published. It's going to come out in the new journal.
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