It wasn't just women who were excluded, the poor didn't stand a chance at all. It's clear that Jeanne had the means to set up underwater cages and build a marin

It wasn't just women who were excluded, the poor didn't stand a chance at all. It's clear that Jeanne had the means to set up underwater cages and build a marine lab, and more than enough time to spend on her studies. The article's title calls her a "seamstress", but that is unrelated.