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WOMEN IN
HISTORY
Is
the history of the world inneed of correction?
Some historians, mostly women,
argue that insufficient
has been paid to a very important group: women.
These historians
history textbooks to be revised
so that they show accurately
the role
by women.
the history books, cavemen
most of the food for their
families
through hunting animals. But the
shows that 80% of the diet of
prehistoric
humans was vegetarian and it was collected by females.,
women's
efforts in fighting in wars or leading revolutions have been ignored.
Textbooks
concentrate
on men such as Hannibal or Che Guevara and neglect
women
such as Théroigne de Méricourt, an opera singer who led the storming
of the
Bastille
in 1789, or Mariya Bochkareva, a Bolshevik who organised a
well-trained and
successful troop of 2,000 fighting women during the Russian revolution
in
1917.
Women rulers are also forgotten. Between 962 and 1582 there were at
least 16
women
rulers in countries from
Italy to Angola.
Women
up half the human.
If there is no
to their
contribution
to history in the textbooks, then the real story is not being told.
However
many
male historians that important female figures have been kept
the
history books.
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