The Matilda Effect

Margaret Knight, who invented the flat-bottomed paper bag, saw the patent go to a man who stole off to the Patent Office with her idea. Knight is just one of the women featured in Oh No He Didn’t! Brilliant Women and the Men Who Took Credit for Their Work, a book written by 1983 Boston College graduate Wendy Murphy. The author tells the stories of women artists, inventors, scientists, architects, and mathematicians who were denied their due, such as Mileva Einstein, Rosalind Franklin, and Candace Pert, among many others. Murphy is attorney specializing in women’s rights, civil rights, constitutional rights, and violence against women and children. She served as a columnist for the Boston Herald for many years and has appeared frequently on network and cable news shows as a pundit and legal analyst.

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