The history of the home pregnancy test is a microcosm of misogyny, chauvinism, and erasure

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…)