“I MADE THAT BITCH FAMOUS”
A brief history of men getting credit for women’s accomplishments
Paleolithic era: Pre-European cave paintings are attributed to male hunters up until 2013, when an anthropologist shows that hand tracings found alongside the art at 10 famous sites were likely done by women.
12th century: “Trota of Salerno” authors a gynecology handbook, On the Sufferings of Women. For centuries, scholars falsely assume Trota was a man.
1818: Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein anonymously. Her husband pens the preface and people assume he was behind it.
1843: Mathematician Ada Lovelace
