A closer study showed that elderly female baboons determine where the group will search for food each day. And a male's reproductive success is much more dependent on his relationship with the group's females than on his place in the chain of male dominance. Females are no longer considered peripheral to primate evolution. Then there is the story of the sperm and the egg. Conception has traditionally been described as a competitive race by sperm cells to be the one to penetrate the passive egg.
New research reveals the female side is far from passive.
The new version is that the egg plays an active role in conception by sending out fingerlike microvilli to reel in the sperm, and secretions that kill off some sperm, thereby selecting sperm out. These contributions to human knowledge, and others, came from seriously studying the female side. But it took a women's movement and women researchers to make this happen. Just think what other fascinating truths will be added to human knowledge when class relations are overturned and national oppression ended. Then all oppressed people can come to science as equals, bringing with them their own unique insights and perspective.