Thursday, November 12, 2020

Heroic Women That Deserve More Recognition


Sometimes historians don't do the best job at properly noting, and giving credit to the people that very well could've altered history itself with the decisions they made. This particular AskReddit thread pays homage to the women that often get overlooked in history, but had profound contributions to society. 

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Text - Posted by u/dundermifflinhoe 17 hours ago O 33 , 2 56 39 3 30 9 35 28 Who are some women that often get overlooked in history but had major contributions to society?

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Text - PhantomKitten73 15.8k points · 15 hours ago · edited 11 hours ago G 3 2 Marie Tharp; she created the first map of the ocean floor, which led to the discovery of tectonic plates, and the theory of continental drift.

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Text - MadameBurner 17.6k points · 14 hours ago · 4 3 2 & 12 More edited 12 hours ago Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha. She is the Dean of Medicine at Hurley Children's Hospital in Flint, MI. She saw that children were having elevated lead levels (ELLS) outside the normal range. She contacted the Genesee Department of Health, who at first, dismissed her claim, then sent her obfuscated data to make it look like the ELLS were completely within normal trends. She grew frustrated at this, so she called a team

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Text - daschle04 6.0k points · 14 hours ago O S Bessie Coleman. She was a black woman who wanted to learn to fly. No one would teach her. She learned that the French would however, so she moved to France, learned French and how to fly. Then she came back to the states and taught whoever wanted to learn. She was alive same time as Amelia Earhart and got no recognition at the time.

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Text - Occams_12azor 13.8k points · 16 hours ago Inge Lehmann was a Danish seismologist. She discovered P' waves (waves that reflect off of the inner-core), confirming that the earth has a solid inner-core and a liquid outer-core.

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Text - Fyrepup 8.9k points 14 hours ago O 2 e3 & 4 More Dr. Georgeanna Seeger Jones Dr. Jones singlehandedly organized the field of Gynecological Endocrinology. While at John's Hopkins with her husband, Dr. Howard Jones and Drs. Roberts and Steptoe, she devised the hypothesis of follicular hyper stimulation, which produced more than one egg per cycle. Her later discoveries led to increases in viability of In Vitro Fertilization. Per Wikipedia : As a resident at Johns Hopkins, she discovered that

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Text - scottstot8543 25.1k points · 15 hours ago Sandra Ford, the drug technician who first brought attention to what would become the AIDS epidemic. She knew something was up when she began receiving unusually high numbers of requests for pentamidine, an antibiotic reserved for treating pneumocystis pneumonia in seriously ill, immuno- compromised patients. The patients it was being requested for were gay men who had been otherwise healthy.

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Text - anthropology_nerd 20.6k points · 15 hours ago 22 3 2 In 1952 Dr. Virginia Apgar developed a quick, easy five-point test that summarizes health of newborns, and determine those needing emergency assistance. The Apgar Score is now given to practically every newborn, and helped save countless young lives, and reduce infant mortality.

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Text - stillpacing 18.4k points · 15 hours ago · edited 9 hours ago Frances Oldham Kelsey. She stopped thalidomide from getting widespread use in North America, and saved countless children from life-altering birth defects.

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Text - RedNeckCrazy0_1 2.6k points · 15 hours ago Elsie MacGill aka "queen of the hurricanes", she was the worlds first female to earn aeronautical engineering degree. The two major things she did was, she designed the Maple Leaf Trainer Il and she was to look over manufacturing operations at a Canadian factories that built the Hawker Hurricane.

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Text - TheSorge 8.3k points · 16 hours ago · edited 16 hours ago The Allied codebreakers at places like Bletchley Park during WWII. They worked incredibly long, tedious, and stressful hours and were a major contributor to the war effort and military intelligence, but their work didn't even receive official recognition from the British government until 2009, 64 years after the war ended. iwannaridearaptor 556 points · 14 hours ago Elizabeth Friedman was a huge part of the American side of the cod

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Text - ETTConnor 2.5k points · 15 hours ago For Scotland I'd say the Edinburgh Seven. Basically paved the way for women being allowed to get into university in the UK.

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Text - GovMajor 5.8k points · 15 hours ago Claudette Colvin was the person who refused to get up from her bus seat during the Jim Crows in America. But she was a young woman who was pregnant out of wedlock at the time, and the black leaders decided she was not a good image of an activist. So they handpicked Rosa Parks to do the same. imitationpeaches 865 points · 14 hours ago Colvin was only 15 when she did that too, which is crazy to me. I definitely never did anything that brave (and was privi

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Text - Muchamuchacha42 274 points · 14 hours ago Virgina Hall has a building named after her at the CIA. She was an American woman from Baltimore who went to Europe in the 1930s, lost her leg in a shooting accident, then proceeded to become a leader in the French Resistance and master of disguise, all with a wooden leg. The book A Woman of No Importance is about her and came out last year.

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Text - fergi20020 550 points · 14 hours ago Anna Connelly invented the fire escape in 1887. That same year, Josephine Cochrane invented the dishwasher.

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Text - thatgreengentleman92 6.6k points · 16 hours ago 2 Daphne Oram - first ever composer to produce electronic sound. She pioneered electronic music and lead the path for music today. She even wrote a piece called "Still Point" that she was never able to perform live because of sexism by her peers and she never heard it live before she died. But it was performed for the first time in 2018 using a replica of a machine Daphne had created to electronically manipulate a live orchestra.

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Text - Cerrida82 463 points · 14 hours ago Carol KayeCarol Kaye, the First Lady of bass playing. She played over 10,000 sessions, including albums from Frank Sinatra, Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, and the Monkees. I can thank the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the subreddit for educating me about her.

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Text - Dovahkiin419 1.3k points · 14 hours ago S Cheng I Sao/ Ching Shih was the single most sucessful pirate in all of history. She led an armada of tens of thousands of sailors and 17 seperate fleets of ships and held the most important tributary in china under raiding for weeks on end before managing to give the slip to a combined force of portuguese, chinese, and English war ships after being cornered in an inlet with 2 wounded ships and no way out but through. After this venture, she recogn

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Text - Rexsparce 4.2k points · 15 hours ago 8 Henrietta Leavitt. She was an astronomer at Harvard and discovered a type of star called a Cepheid. Cepheid stars all pulse at the same rate. That lets us know how far away they are. Because of her, we were able to determine how big the universe is along with many, many more things concerning its properties.

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Text - KungFu-omega-warrior 20.1k points · 15 hours ago · edited 14 hours ago 3 4 3 3 8 Nellie Bly. She was a 1890s journalist who was given an assignment to investigate the Woman's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island due to accusations of the mistreatment of patients. She got in there by faking insanity and getting herself committed to the asylum, and when she was finally released, she ran an exposé in the New York World called "Ten Days In A Madhouse" that exposed the awful treatment of patie

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Text - YuunofYork 4.5k points · 16 hours ago 2 Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903. As soon as the patent expired, it became standard in all cars. She attempted to sell it while she had the rights to it, but most manufacturers refused to believe it was a feature of value, and it is likely her being female colored their lack of enthusiasm.

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Text - DailyMash 3.4k points · 16 hours ago Eleanor Marx - Maybe overlooked because of her dad. She played an important role in British Trade Unions which forced the move from a 12 hour working day 6 days a week to an 8 hour day 5 days a weekend. Those extra hours to go on a walk, play Xbox, learn something new or just chill is a pretty big contribution.

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Text - PoppiiLlama 957 points · 15 hours ago Frances Perkins, she was the first female cabinet member in the US. She was appointed by FDR and played a key role in the new deal as well as working for better working conditions, child labor laws and women's rights. Reply Share ... csl512 126 points · 14 hours ago Department of Labor building bears her name

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Text - Chaotic_Pigeon88 334 points · 15 hours ago Lise Meitner! She's a Jewish physicist that worked with Otto Hahn in research on radioactivity. She had to flee Nazi Germany, but continued on with her work in Sweden and helped discover nuclear fission. While Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission, Meitner was also part of that research. She was also offered work with the Manhattan Project, but refused because she opposed nuclear weaponry. The element me

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Text - linden_84 2.5k points · 15 hours ago Rosalind Franklin - Crick & Watson got all the glory, and even the plaque at the Eagle only mentiones their name. , Reply Share Big-Bubbly 907 points · 14 hours ago A little context for those unaware - she was responsible for the famous double helix image. That was her data, they got the nobel.

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Text - -EDBAR- 2.1k points · 15 hours ago · edited 15 hours ago Sister Rosetta Tharpe She was super influencial to early rock musicians like Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and so many more. Johnny Cash even said that she was his favorite singer and she was also one of the first to play around with heavy distortion on her electric guitar. She's called by some "The Godmother of Rock and Roll" but I guarantee you that the average person has never heard of her. Edit: Her

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Text - misterpankakes 723 points · 15 hours ago Hypatia, made the astrolabe. Then was skinned allive by christians YouLikeReadingNames 364 points · 14 hours ago For people who don't have context: she was from Alexandria, which was a very diverse city, even by modern standards. There were major rivalries between Neoplatonists, a school of scientists, thinkers etc. and Christians. The Bishop of Alexandria, Cyril, demanded that they stop having so much influence on the city with their philosophy be

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Text - xime1973 1.5k points · 16 hours ago Hedy Lamarr. Also today's her birthday :) Reply Share .. matts2 782 points · 15 hours ago Let's remind people. Ms. Lamarr made a major contribution to the war effort and communication theory. She co-invented frequency hopping, something used today with cell phones.

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Text - SplodyPants 460 points · 15 hours ago Michele Mouton: It's just auto racing, not super important in the grand scheme of things but holy shit! She was probably the best rally driver and hill climber of her era and one of the best ever. She was also very involved in innovating All-Wheel- Drive racing and safety standards. And she raced in the Group B class which takes a level of skill, guts, and complete disregard for safety that has never been, and never will be matched.

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Text - EigenUponATime 429 points 15 hours ago Grace Hopper. She's very well known in some circles, but not nearly enough. Reapr 311 points · 12 hours ago edited 12 hours ago + This should so be higher up. Without Grace, programming would have been reserved for scientists only. We probably wouldn't have most of what we have today in regards to software and the advantages we enjoyed because of that. She was a Motherfucking Legend. She had a masters in maths in a time when a lot of Universities sti

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Text - Andromeda321 85 points · 14 hours ago · edited 13 hours ago Astronomer here! The foundations for modern astrophysics and what we understand about the universe did not come from the pre-eminent astronomers of the 19th century, but rather a group of women called the Harvard computers. This is because at the time only men were allowed to use the telescopes and Harvard was experimenting with the first astrophotography, and they hired women to look at those first images, and it then became the

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Text - krosbubble 168 points · 14 hours ago Dolores Huerta cofounder of the United Farmworkers Union with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s. She was a civil rights activist and advocated for immigrant worker rights by boycotting white grape owners. Farmworkers we're exposed to insidious pesticides, poor working conditions and awful pay. Her determination has changed the landscape of working rights and influenced many to stand up against unfair treatment and discrimination. She has historically lived in

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Text - EmLahLady 840 points · 16 hours ago Ada Lovelace , Reply Share _INIT_THROWAWAY__ 523 points · 15 hours ago S She's so awesome. For anyone that doesn't know, she effectively invented the basis for modern computer programming by observing her friend Charles Babbage's work on his Analytical Machine, which was effectively a calculator. She realised that it was possible to do more than just maths with it and thus established the basis for modern computing. ihavesomanythings 252 points 14 hours

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Text - Veidici 215 points · 14 hours ago Globally? Perhaps Kate Sheppard, who was the leader of the Women's Suffrage Movement in New Zealand when New Zealand became the first country in the world to give Women the right to vote. Locally, she is acknowledged by appearing on our $10 note, but I would say globally few people would probably know of her and the impact she has had for democracies across the world.

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Text - Professional-Can8235 866 points · 16 hours ago That one lady that hand wrote all of the math it took to get to the moon. I forgot her name. Pretty ironic that I don't remember her name. , Reply Share -EDBAR- 776 points · 15 hours ago [Margaret Hamilton](https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)) was her name and here is the picture of her standing next to the code she handwrote to help us get to the moon.

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