Hello, 60-second science listeners. I'm Katie Haffner, and I'm the host of a new podcast

called Lost Woman of Science. I've been writing about science and technology for decades,

most of that time for the New York Times, but very rarely did I write about a woman who

was a major figure. I don't remember a bothering me very much at the time. It just seemed

normal. I believed I was writing about the most important people in their fields, but it

became clear, as my career went on, that important figures were missing, namely, women. I started

asking why this was a couple of years ago, and I kept coming back to something called the

Matilda Effect, which is basically a bias against acknowledging women for their work in

science. Instead, the credit goes to a man. A good example I saw in the news recently is

Jocelyn Bell-Bernell. She's a radio astronomer who discovered the first two pulsars, but the

Nobel Prize went to a man. If we don't catch these misattributions, these women can just

fade away from our consciousness, and we'll never know the truth about their story and about

our history. I started this podcast to retrieve these scientists from oblivion. We put together

a trailer for the series, and here it is. I'm Katie Haffner, host of a new podcast called Lost

Women of Science. Through history, women have made hundreds of scientific breakthroughs. She had a

sixth sense about this disease that enabled her to sort of pick out, I think, important clues.

She was helpful in a very different, unnoticed way. She put this puzzle together. But many, if not most,

of these scientists are missing from the public's consciousness. And as I added up all this data in my

head, it gradually became clear that her place had been ignored. Each season will explore and

celebrate the life and work of one woman who shaped our understanding of the world. And will

delve into some of the reasons you might not know her name. I mean, why is it that Rosalyn Franklin

wasn't given credit for her contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA? I think it's

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