The history of the home pregnancy test is a microcosm of misogyny, chauvinism, and erasure
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1P5BF)
When Pagan Kennedy wrote her 2012 New York Times Magazine history of home pregnancy testing, it didn't mention Margaret Crane, the product designer who created, designed and championed the test and all it stood for: the right of "a woman to peer into her own body and to make her own decisions about it, without anyone else - husband, boyfriend, boss, doctor - getting in the way." (more")