Introducing IDEAS How a historian found the lost women of science

IDEAS, hosted by Nahlah Ayed is a weekday podcast that explores how ideas shape our world. “One of your tribe is enough.” That’s what Margaret Rossiter was told when she said she wanted to study female scientists in the ‘70s. Nevertheless, Rossiter persisted. She found and documented hundreds of women whose contributions to science had been overlooked, under-credited and misappropriated. Then she made history herself by coining the term “The Matilda Effect” to describe why those women failed to get the credit they deserved. Who is Matilda? Matilda Joslyn Gage was a suffragist erased from history. She was known as being too radical for Susan B. Anthony. This episode of IDEAS shares her story. You can find more episodes of IDEAS wherever you get your podcasts, and here:

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Introducing IDEAS How a historian found the lost women of science is an episode from Quirks and Quarks Complete Show from CBC Radio by CBC.

This episode is 00:55:26 long.

This episode was published on Apr 28, 2026.

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