@article{b55e4527a7b74415ab15bfb74871ff4b,
title = "“Her joyous enthusiasm for her life-work…”: Early women authors in the American naturalist",
abstract = "Women have long been underrepresented in the natural sciences, and although great progress has been made in recent decades, many subtle and not-so-subtle barriers persist. In this context, it is easy to get the impression that the early history of ecology and evolutionary biology was exclusively the domain of male researchers. In fact, a number of women made very substantial contributions to The American Naturalist in its first decades. In a follow-up to a series of retrospective essays celebrating 150 years of this journal, we highlight the scientific contributions of the women published in it during its first 50 years (1867–1916). We also discuss the diverse paths that their scientific careers took and the barriers they faced along the way.",
keywords = "Ecology, Evolution, History of science, Women in science",
author = "Bronstein, {Judith L.} and Bolnick, {Daniel I.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Trish Morse and Betty Smocovitis for discussions about the history of The American Naturalist, as well as Editor Russell Bonduriansky and two anonymous reviewers. This essay grew out of a series of Twitter posts between D.I.B. and Daniel Weissmann about early diversity of authors in The American Naturalist. Weissmann provided pointers to many early women authors, forming the initial foundation for this historical comment. While working on this essay, D.I.B. was supported by National Institutes of Health grant 1R01AI123659-01A1. Funding Information: Like Mary Willcox, Ida Hyde held prestigious positions and, spurred by her own difficulties along the way, became a vigorous advocate for women in academia. After obtaining her PhD, she was chosen as a prestigious investigator of residence to study marine invertebrate physiology at the Naples Zoological Station. During this time, she published a comparative study of mammalian hearts in this journal. She was ultimately hired as an assistant professor at the University of Kansas in 1899, where she was the founding chair of the Department of Physiology. She organized a fund (the Naples Table Association) to provide financial aid and professional support to women pursuing scientific research, founded a scholarship at the University of Kansas, and endowed the Ida H. Hyde International Fellowship with the Association of American University Women (AAUW). She argued for everything from equal pay for women to installing women{\textquoteright}s{\textquoteright} toilets in the science buildings at her university. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.",
year = "2018",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1086/700119",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "192",
pages = "655--663",
journal = "American Naturalist",
issn = "0003-0147",
publisher = "University of Chicago",
number = "6",
}