20 Women From History Who Are Unfairly Overlooked

It’s hard being a woman. You’re physically incapacitated for about one-sixth of your entire life, none of your clothes have pockets, and if you manage to do anything cool despite those challenges, people will find a reason to dismiss it. They’ll say you must have stolen it from a man or gotten it by sleeping with a man or somehow tricked a man out of it, but only with his knowing participation, because you can’t be smarter than a man. The boobs cut off all the blood flow to the brain.

If they can’t find a reason, however, they’ll just outright ignore you. As a result, there are countless women left out of history books for achievements either attributed to men or unknown to the public entirely. Luckily, they were compiled for posterity after a Redditor asked r/AskReddit, which is kind of like a history book for people allergic to books, “Who are some women that often get overlooked in history but had major contributions to society?”