Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But as a geographer and specialist in geographic information systems, I have observed how opportunities for women as mapmakers ...

Mademoiselle M. F. Daniel, “A Rustic Bridge over a Brook Shaded by Trees” (19th century), etching (all images courtesy the New York Public Library unless noted) In the 19th century, Henrietta Louisa ...

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Although women have always been part of the mapping landscape, their contributions to cartography have long been overlooked. Mapmaking has traditionally featured men, from Mercator’s projection of the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Melinda Laituri, Colorado State University (THE CONVERSATION) Although women have ...