Why Women Also Know History

• Published in: Journal of women's history Vol. 32; no. 2; pp. 113 - 117
• Main Authors: Prifogle, Emily, Wulf, Karin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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; United States > US

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...