16/12/2024
Gerda Lerner, the historian and scholar who pioneered the field of women's history, once described how frequently girls and women's stories have been neglected in the study of history: "In my courses, the teachers told me about a world in which ostensibly one-half the human race is doing everything significant and the other half doesn’t exist. I asked myself how this checked against my own life experience. ‘This is garbage; this is not the world in which I have lived.’"
To introduce kids to pioneering women role models who changed the world, we recommend the picture book "Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/shaking-things-up), and the illustrated biography "HerStory: 50 Women and Girls Who Shook the World" for ages 8 to 13 (https://www.amightygirl.com/herstory)
To find many books for children and teens about famous women that we fortunately now have access to thanks to the work of Dr. Lerner and other historians, visit our "History & Biography" book section at https://www.amightygirl.com/books/history-biography
And for one of our favorite women's history-themed t-shirts, featuring Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's famous quote "Well behaved women seldom make history," visit https://www.amightygirl.com/well-behaved-women-history-shirt
