Why Women Also Know History

In the last two decades, women have earned 42 percent of all history PhDs and, according to recently collected data from the American Historical Association (AHA), women have achieved near parity in academic hiring.2 Yet women are underrepresented in citation counts, publishing, hiring, promotion, p...

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Published inJournal of women's history Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 113 - 117
Main Authors Prifogle, Emily, Wulf, Karin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.06.2020
Subjects
Bias
Bible
Collaboration
Compensation
Conferences
Crowdsourcing
Discrimination
Experts
Family leave
Female roles
Gender
Hiring
Historians
Interagency collaboration
Journalists
Methodist churches
Minority & ethnic groups
Mobilization
Peer review
Publishing
Scholars
Sex discrimination
Sexual harassment
Shooting
Social networks
Tagging
Tenure
Women
Working women
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Summary:In the last two decades, women have earned 42 percent of all history PhDs and, according to recently collected data from the American Historical Association (AHA), women have achieved near parity in academic hiring.2 Yet women are underrepresented in citation counts, publishing, hiring, promotion, peer review, grant awards, syllabi, and conference panels—nearly every measure of an academic historian's professional life.3 While recognizing parity in hiring, the AHA simultaneously noted that gender plays an additional "role in the professional experiences of women" in the form of "compensation, tenure decisions, sexual harassment, parental leave policies, and more subtle forms of discrimination [that have] held back women historians for years. [...]hashtags have proven effective in creating collective syllabi like the #Charleston-Syllabus created by Keisha Blain, Chad Williams, and Kidada Williams in response to the shooting in South Carolina during a Bible study meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2015.6 Crowdsourced syllabi draw together more than a reading list for critical engagement on a particular subject; they also use a hashtag to create and mobilize inclusive communities. [...]not unrelated, we are increasing our collaboration with other organizations and initiatives. [...]we are thinking hard about how to get into journalists' workflows, and we are not alone.
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ISSN:1042-7961
1527-2036
1527-2036
DOI:10.1353/jowh.2020.0014