One of the first women to scientifically debunk men's alleged superiority, Hollingworth’s research lent credibility to the burgeoning feminist movement in the early 20th century. Leta Stetter Hollingworth: A Biography, University of Nebraska PressBallot of the Sexes: Hollingworth married a progressive man in 1908. “A female with a mental age of 6 years survives in society about as well as a male with a mental age of 10 or 11 years,” Hollingworth wrote. In 1915, Lucy Stone League activist Doris Fleischman called Hollingworth “the scientist among feminists” in a review in the New York Tribune. Leta Hollingworth was listed in a highly prestigious professional directory that no doubt would have made her father proud: American Men in Science.

Source: Forbes August 14, 2020 19:52 UTC