> So much of world history leaves out or minimizes the contributions of women, and so “of course” most of us had no idea who she was.
This sounds amazing. I thought she's really well known amongst the techie crowd.
This sounds amazing. I thought she's really well known amongst the techie crowd.
University educations are still good for some things! It's good to know your roots :)
It turns out that it wasn't a bunch of yet-to-be-educated 14-year-olds, but a group including at least two senior female professionals in the technology industry.
In their defence, it could just be because they are foreign. There are probably plenty of highly significant historical Americans of whom I've never heard, but every US schoolchild is expected to know intimately.
A further defence might be that she does know all about Lady Lovelace, and that this "Never heard of her" business is just a rhetorical device to so that the reader and the author appear to go on the same journey of revelation.