As I was listening to the podcast, I was fascinated by the beginning. I am a feminist myself and I loved that they were drawing attention to the fact that the recorded history we have is only a small picture of what actually happened in the past. This depiction that we have only included people of high status, wealth, or in positions of power. But what about the rest of the people in the world? Were their stories not important enough to be passed down or written down? A lot of these stories that we don’t have are the story of women. Throughout history, women have been seen as pretty things that should be seen and not heard. This means that the idea of women is that they weren’t often doing work that actually mattered to the world. They were just having babies and serving their husbands. This podcast sheds some light on a lot of the good that people are doing to try and get women’s stories out into the open. They talk about some of the female scientists that are covered up by the skewed version of history that is heavily dominated by men. I especially liked the example that they gave about the woman who was called the prettiest woman in the world and that’s what people knew her as. She was also an inventor but no one bothered to think about that. She was just seen as a pretty girl and not as the intelligent woman that she was.<\/p>\n
This is why I think that the great man theory is just wrong. History was not made by men, it was just recorded by men who didn’t want to share the spotlight. The history that we know is not a full, well rounded, view of what happened in the past it is only one side of the story. There are so many people who aren’t included in the world history that deserve to have their stories told.\u00a0 Women are consistently held back from achieving everything that they could in a world that is built on the ideas and fundamentals of sexism. This is why women in STEM has been a historically low population. It is hard for women to make it in such a male-dominated workforce.\u00a0 Great-Man theory, or the idea that history is shaped by notable men, is no longer, and never truly was, an accurate depiction of what happened in the past<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I was listening to the podcast, I was fascinated by the beginning. I am a feminist myself and I loved that they were drawing…<\/p>\n