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If you find Jane Goodall inspirational, you may be delighted to learn about Anne Innis Dagg [0], whose studies of wild giraffe predates Goodall's study of chimp
by evanb 1y ago
If you find Jane Goodall inspirational, you may be delighted to learn about Anne Innis Dagg [0], whose studies of wild giraffe predates Goodall's study of chimps. The documentary "The Woman Who Loves Giraffes" [1] is fantastic and has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. The reason you might not know Dagg's name is essentially that she was denied tenure for being a woman.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Innis_Dagg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Innis_Dagg
[1] https://thewomanwholovesgiraffes.com/ https://thewomanwholovesgiraffes.com/
- kortilla 1y ago[flagged]
- saghm 1y agoNo, but it is a way people can get financial security to be able to spend time on more public-facing efforts
- evanb 1y agoThat’s correct, but being forced out of academia is a good way for scientists to disappear from research and publication.
- worik 1y ago> Tenure is not how people gain notoriety Being over looked because of your gender does not gain you notoriety either, otherwise notoriety would mean something completely different! There are so so many But fighting back as Digg did, suing and campaigning - that is how you get notoriety, and help the people following in your footsteps. A pox on their bigoted hierarchies.
- DirkH 1y agoThat was an absolutely lovely read. I did not think I would get so invested. However... I didn't know she died as well so the final sentence on her wiki article caught my off-guard :(
- mkl 1y agoIt's stated in the first sentence.
- kortilla 1y agoJane Goodall did not have tenure