India, Nov. 7 -- Name one legendary woman scientist who isn't Marie Curie.

It's hard, and that isn't your fault.

As suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage noted in her essay, Woman as an Inventor (1883), women's contributions to science and technology have been consistently sidelined, ignored or attributed to a nearby man. (This has happened with art too. Scan the QR code alongside for an overview of stunning "lost" art by women.)

In Gage's honour, the phenomenon of side-lining women in science came to be called The Matilda Effect. It was Margaret Rossiter, a science historian at Cornell University, who coined the term Matilda Effect, in 1993.

Now, an online initiative called The Matilda Project is bringing lost stories of such women into the...