The forgotten half of the past world. The representation of women in Flemish and Hungarian history textbooks for secondary education

Posted by Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse on 2025-09-29

Think for yourself about ten names of people who you believe played an important role in world history. Chances are you will immediately come up with names such as Jesus, Mohammed, Genghis Khan, Columbus, Michelangelo, Voltaire, Watt, Smith, or Hitler. Strikingly, they are all men. It is probably not so easy to spontaneously come up with names of women. Yet throughout world history, women have [...]

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