un besito antes y un después

I’ve just been reading The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel, about the Harvard women who supported the bulk of astronomy research there over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While many of them did receive public and academic credit as well as pay - although the university always resisted making any of them faculty until the 1950s - almost all the male astronomers featured were married to accomplished women in their own right, many of them scientists, and you can bet their husbands weren’t putting them on all their papers. 

in history, Charles Beard kept insisting on putting Mary Beard’s name on the work they co-authored. he insisted they did equal work; other male academics consistently discussed their work as if Charles alone had done it and tried to ignore her. they wrote reviews that only mentioned his name, etc.

the saga continues

It’s a minor pet peeve, but it is everywhere today so errrr…. please keep in mind that “Rest in Peace”/RIP literally comes from a latin phrase and is a very very deeply Christian expression.