Elizabeth I, Virginia Woolf, Katharine Hepburn: none had children, and history keeps asking why instead of what they built. The pattern exposes a structural price for combining ambition with womanhood, one that credited Rosalind Franklin's discovery to men and erased Florence Baker's expeditions entirely.

— via The Conversation — History, Lynsey Cowlishaw, PhD Candidate in History and Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London