All the Men So Good for Nothing, and Hardly Any Women at All

I'm about halfway through Julie Des Jardins' The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science (The Feminist Press, 2010), a fascinating and disturbing book with implications I want to write about more. For now, though, here's something from the beginning of the book that might look like trivia at first.In 1921 the famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison was looking for a few good men