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.
That 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 :(
It's stated in the first sentence.
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No, but it is a way people can get financial security to be able to spend time on more public-facing efforts
That’s correct, but being forced out of academia is a good way for scientists to disappear from research and publication.
> 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.