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Article

Publication Date

8-2020

Abstract

"Women Also Know Stuff. Does that sound obvious? It's not, alas." In early 2016 a group of women political scientists announced in The Washington Post their reasons for forming a group called Women Also Know Stuff. The US presidential election dramatically exposed the ongoing imbalance in the consultation and citation of women experts in political discussion.1 The new group was responding directly to media bias, but it has long been clear that bias—not only against women but against people of color, LGBTQ scholars, and other groups—is persistent in academia. The historical profession is no exception.

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Copyright © Journal of Women's History. This article first appeared in Journal of Women’s History 32:2 (2020), 113-117. Reprinted with permission by Johns Hopkins University Press. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1353/jowh.2020.0014

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