“History never stops to take a breath,” but the perspective of it does change when experienced through the lives of different people. History is often interpreted as what happened to the general public, however, all too often the only part of the general public that was represented in historical accounts was the male faction. Rather than allow the worldview of half of the world’s population to be lost, Pamela McVay explains in her book, Envisioning Women in World History: 1500-Present, Volume 2 what women’s history is, how it differs from other types of history, and how different types of societies influenced the lives and history of women.
History is not just made up of events and facts, it is also how the events and facts affected the people during the time in which they occurred. Class, religion, and ethnicity all made a great deal of difference in how an individual was impacted by history, but undoubtedly the biggest deciding factor for an individual was gender. The differences and inequalities that separated men and women in society resulted in women having separate roles, and perspectives. Women’s history is the record of world experiences as seen …show more content…
As a whole, foraging societies provided more gender equality between men and women then settled cultures, although the daily chores for survival were usually still divided into men’s tasks and women’s tasks. One of the reasons foraging societies were inclined toward this egalitarianism was because they did not view leadership as a position of permanence or power, instead leaders were chosen according to their capabilities for only a temporary amount of time. This system demonstrates that authority and respect in agrarian societies were not allocated based on inheritance or preconceived traditions but individual merit, an ideology which extended to the female
History is not just made up of events and facts, it is also how the events and facts affected the people during the time in which they occurred. Class, religion, and ethnicity all made a great deal of difference in how an individual was impacted by history, but undoubtedly the biggest deciding factor for an individual was gender. The differences and inequalities that separated men and women in society resulted in women having separate roles, and perspectives. Women’s history is the record of world experiences as seen …show more content…
As a whole, foraging societies provided more gender equality between men and women then settled cultures, although the daily chores for survival were usually still divided into men’s tasks and women’s tasks. One of the reasons foraging societies were inclined toward this egalitarianism was because they did not view leadership as a position of permanence or power, instead leaders were chosen according to their capabilities for only a temporary amount of time. This system demonstrates that authority and respect in agrarian societies were not allocated based on inheritance or preconceived traditions but individual merit, an ideology which extended to the female