When the book says that women have been “written out” of sociology it means that at one point woman were a part of the sociological community. Unlike being invisible like African Americans were with their experience with marginalization, women were actually seen at the time as being great contributors to the science of sociology. Sadly these women were erased out of the records even though they helped begin the sociological movement. The reason this happened was because the movement to create a science of society created many hardships for women. At that point in time sociology was very unstable as an emerging science and the effects of race, gender and class all affected people trying to be influential in the science. The study of sociology took on the picture of an intellectual mans kind of work. Because of this women’s work in sociology were written out of the records even though they contributed many great things and were seen as equals to the community at the time. The issues and ideas that sociology’s women founders have a lot in common. For example, many of them analyzed the problems of race and gender. Some even helped with the creation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). They also published many articles on lynching and cooperate housing for working women. Interestingly being around the area in and surrounding Chicago connected them all to each other and enabled them to communicate easily. One hot bed for women sociologists was the Hull-House in Chicago where many met to help Addams with her work. Together these founding women worked together to publicize their ideas and usually read each other’s readings and findings. It is very important to recognize the contributions of sociology’s women founders because they had a great contribution to the science. Without influential women like Addams and Martineau sociology would not be at the point it is today. Though the records may not indicate these women they helped build the science to be a well-respected science that is used in every day life. These bright women worked along side of the smartest men of the time and proved to be a great asset to the science. If these women weren’t strong enough to fight against the sexism that they endured the science as a whole would have been a lot worse off. Hopefully these women will get more recognition for the work they put into the science of sociology and that they will be seen as great contributors to the science.