{"id":755,"date":"2019-09-18T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=755"},"modified":"2019-09-18T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:31:38","slug":"great-man-theory-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/18\/great-man-theory-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Man Theory Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listening to this podcast brought up a couple of different points, but one in particular caught my attention. It discussed how we look at history through the lens of diversity. People are often taught that women do not regularly appear in history because they were not present in prominent roles; the podcast used the example of women in science to refute this claim. People attribute the lack of female Nobel prize winners to the lack of women in science. I know that this is what I was taught, and I accepted it because based on my knowledge of older time periods, I knew that women had less opportunities. After that one sentence remark, the class would move on and continue to talk about the prominent white males that made landmark discoveries. I thought it was interesting how the podcast highlighted that the lack of women in prominent roles is, yes, partially symptomatic of the lack of women in science, but we must go one step deeper. Why are women not in scientific fields? Also, it is doubtful that there were quite literally no<\/em> women in science, so for those who were, who were they? What did they do and how did they contribute? These are the crucial questions we fail to ask.<\/p>\n

After listening to this portion, I had an \u201ca-ha I\u2019m enlightened\u201d feeling, which was basically crushed a few minutes later. They began to move away from women in general and speak about minorities and minority women. Why were they not recognized in scientific fields? I thought to myself, again, that these groups of people just weren\u2019t in scientific fields. Immediately, my \u201ca-ha I\u2019m enlightened\u201d feeling dissolved. Just because one becomes aware of their bias\/ignorance does not mean that they are instantly cured of it. This ties into the way we study history. We answer the first question (\u201cwhy are women not in scientific fields?\u201d), accept that answer, and simply move on with our day. To fully understand history, you have to keep digging for the next question, which leads to the next question, which leads to the next, etc. Fixing this flaw is not a one-and-done, but the beginning step is being able to recognize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listening to this podcast brought up a couple of different points, but one in particular caught my attention. It discussed how we look at history…<\/p>\n

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