Colette is just the latest film to expose how men have taken credit for women’s work
Clarisse Loughrey /
The Independent
History is littered with women who have seen their accomplishments claimed by the men around them. In fact, the phenomenon is so common in the world of science that the term “Matilda effect” was coined to describe it, named after suffragist and abolitionist Matilda Joslyn Gage, who first described the phenomenon in her 1870 essay “Woman as Inventor”.