This article is about a women who had to write a report on Abraham Lincoln.

While she studied about him she became

fascinated with Mary Todd (wife of Abraham).

Then, she and her classmates talked about her curriculum, and more precisely, about the lack of women they
encountered in the pages of textbooks, classroom handouts, short stories, and novel. They considered including an
inventory of women across the curriculum. The study would provide the data to demand more novels by and about
women, more attention to women in history and science, more representation at all levels.

They wanted Women’s Studies, a class that would be not just about social constructions of gender and identity, but also
about their lives, histories, existence. They did a course, The course would study women's contributions to history, arts
education, and so on. She spent the rest of the year writing the syllabus for “Introduction to Women’s Studies,” which
would be offered for the first time.

She taught her students and instructed them to look for women in different fields: social, economic, political. The
accumulation of these women, so many women, day after day, was unexpectedly powerful.

*It is important to talk about women in all contexts, to emphasize that they can also be important in politics, literature,
economics, and so on.

-excessive representation of men is dominant , as Woffel (2019) affirm “Right now 90 percent of Wikipedia editors are
men, more than 75 percent of congressional seats are held by men, and more than 90 percent of the directors of top
Hollywood films are men”.

-It is important to create strategies or ways to generate more representation of women in the world. For instance, “to
demand more novels by and about women, more attention to women in history and science, more representation at all
levels” (Woffel, 2019).

The valuable thing is to take the initiative “Woman of the Day is not the most creative teaching idea I have ever had, but it
may be the most transformative in heightening my awareness of the paucity of women” (Woffel,2019)