Writing Women Back Into History
By Mary Ruthsdotter
Education Digest, 1996
Combine teachers' dismissal of women's contributions with the paucity of information about women in most new textbooks, and the consequences for developing minds are grim. In Prentice-Hall's textbook, A History of the United States (1992), less than 3 percent of content is about women....The message is clear to boys and girls alike: Women have played no vital roles in the political, economic, and social development of our culture....