English Dictionary

Matilda effect

名詞

不可算名詞

Ignorance or minimization of women's role in science.

日本語の意味

科学分野において、女性の貢献や役割が正当に評価されず、無視または過小評価される現象。 / 女性の功績が見落とされ、科学の分野で女性の役割が軽視される実態を示す用語。

Many historians now recognize the Matilda effect when female scientists' discoveries are attributed to their male colleagues.

多くの歴史家は、女性科学者の発見が男性同僚に帰されるときに見られる、女性の科学における貢献を無視または過小評価する傾向を認識している。

意味（1）

Ignorance or minimization of women's role in science.

Since this systematic bias in scientific information and recognition practices fits the second half of Matthew 13:12 in the Bible, which refers to the under-recognition accorded to those who have little to start with, it is suggested that sociologists of science and knowledge can add to the 'Matthew Effect', made famous by Robert K. Merton in 1968, the Matilda Effect, named for the American suffragist and feminist critic Matilda J. Gage of New York, who in the late nineteenth century both experienced and articulated this phenomenon.