Comment on It's always been women in STEM.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 18 hours agoOr, if she did exist but almost nobody heard about her in the 500 years after her death, why would that have happened?
(Not taking a position on her existence, but thinking about Hatshepsut and many women whose accomplishments were ignored, hidden, or credited to men)
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Is it possible they did hear and it was not written down?
Or it was written down and someone had reason to destroy the evidence? Perhaps patriarchal orthodoxy did not like the idea of a woman being credited with this accomplishment.