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Careers and controversy before the First World War

Women’s contributions to science were played down for decades after Nature’s 1869 launch, by both the journal and wider society.
  1. Claire Jones

    1. Claire Jones is a historian of science and senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK.

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In its 150 years of existence, Nature has witnessed the emergence of science as a profession. But as research moved from a domestic to an institutional setting, women became increasingly invisible, and the historical narrative became resolutely male.

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Nature 575, 239-242 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03361-2

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