Jocelyn<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/@cnrs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>cnrs</span></a></span> </p><p>Hired as technician "she had a hard time convincing [her superior, PhD student] Heezen, who initially dismissed her ideas as "old wives’ tale". In fact, it took <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/Tharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tharp</span></a> a whole year to persuade her male colleague that she was right, by showing the correlation between her <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/bathymetricMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bathymetricMaps</span></a> and that of earthquakes in the Atlantic"</p><p>"Being a <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/woman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>woman</span></a>, she wasn't at that time allowed to embark on oceanographic vessels, or earn a PhD" </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/PlateTectonics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlateTectonics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/DriftTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DriftTheory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/WomenInScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/MarieTharp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarieTharp</span></a></p>