No author of the United States Constitution was a woman (though Abigail Adams did urge her husband, John, to “remember the ladies”). In religious texts, women are often maligned or represented as mee k or subservient. And academia and news media have long positioned men as the expert s . By some accounts, women occupy a mere 0.5 percent of about 3,500 years of recorded history. Women’s acknowledged history isn’t even old enough to vote!

Source: New York Times January 04, 2019 15:22 UTC