How often have we overlooked women's contributions?

Instead of 'man's first...'; perhaps 'human's first...' would be better

Repost from @womens_rights_uk

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#OverlookedWomen : Rosalind Franklin.

Died 16 April 1958, aged 37

Crystallographer who took Photo 51, the first known X-ray image of the DNA double helix. Watson, Crick & Wilkins later shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine & Physiology.

#OverlookedWomen Bella Reay (1900 - 1979)

A new play, Wor Bella, starts at Bread and Roses Clapham
on 22 April. Bella Reay scored 133 goals in 30 games for Blyth Spartans, better than legends Alan Shearer and Jackie Milburn. After WW1 the FA imposed a ban on female players.

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Mary Wollstonecraft, born 27 April 1759.

Writer and women's rights advocate.

“I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.'

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Evelyn Boyd Granville born 1 May 1924.

Created computer software for NASA

“We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavoured to place upon us.”

#OverlookedWomen : Ann Welch MBE, OBE
(1917-2002) Aviator & glider pilot who flew more than 100 aircraft types in Air Transport Auxillary. Reformed Surrey Hills Gliding Club at Kenley.
Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society & Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation

#Overlookedwomen  Annie Easley.
Born 23 April 1933.

African-American scientist & NASA software developer.

“My head is not in the sand.… if I can't work with you, I will work around you. I was not about to be [so] discouraged that I'd walk away.”

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Florence Bell b. 1 May 1913.
Crystallographer who aided the discovery of DNA structure by showing that it had a regular, ordered structure. With Astbury she described it in a 1938 nature paper as a “pile of pennies”.
Image attribution Chris Sawyer

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