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May 4, 2008 in Selfish blogging - about me, my life, feminism

Do any of you know if any women were involved in the discovery of electricity? My mother’s school is teaching about The Fathers of Electricity and it’s getting her down. Surely they had some input?

Any ideas/knowledge, please don’t hesitate to let me know

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May 4, 2008 at 7:08 pm

Dan

I just did a brief search for you to see if I could find anything

I came across Hertha Ayrton and:

‘She was the fifth recipient of this prize, award annually since 1902 in recognition of an original discovery in the physical sciences, particularly electricity and magnetism or their applications, and as of 2005, the only woman so honored.’

The last part of that being perhaps the most staggering - the only woman!

Actually, the search I did annoyed me too - Google’s spelling corrections are normally pretty good, but it seems they are perhaps taking it a bit to far?

Hope that info helps!

I haven’t seen you in aaaages by the way - how are you? I’m on the mend now, but slowly!

See you soon =D

Dan xx

May 4, 2008 at 10:01 pm

Jacob Ward

I think if the title of the course is ‘The Fathers of Electricity’ then exclusion of women is mandatory…whether that should be the title of the course is another matter altogether

May 4, 2008 at 10:16 pm

Caitlin

It’s not the title of the course. It’s not a course. They are 5 and 6 yrs old, it’s pretty much whatever the teacher wants to call it at this stage. But as my Ma and the teacher she works with don’t know of any women involved in the invention of electricity, the teacher is stuck with the Fathers of Electricity. Which, if women had nothing to do with its invention, is fair enough. But I find it hard to believe that quite so many men were involved and no women had any input…

May 5, 2008 at 12:19 am

Jacob Ward

I was attempting to be humorous
I’ve given up on that now…I clearly don’t have the ability

May 5, 2008 at 10:52 am

Caitlin

On teh internetz, maybe not