Why are women philosophers often erased from collective memory?

Link to Aeon Essay *click me*

New essay on Aeon, asking a simple question: 

"Looking at the women routinely vanishing to the margins of my field, a question began to form in my mind: when conceived of as a lineage of women thinkers, what would the philosophy of science have looked like today?"

​The history of ideas still struggles to remember the names of notable women philosophers. Mary Hesse is a salient example.