I remember when I was younger I didn't give much thought to the fact that most of history is about men. When I got older I started to realize that maybe the reason that there is little mention of women in history is not because there weren't women that were making history or trying to, but because men write history, and get to decide what is "history" or not.
I feel like I should have known more about the women's movement before I came to this class or before I came to college in general. While it is my fault too for not making an effort to learn about it, I feel like there should have been more classes in high school that dealt with women's history a little more in detail. One of the only things that I can think of that I knew about the women's movement was that women won the right to vote in 1920. I find it very interesting that you hear plenty about the struggle for African-Americans to get the right to vote and to be treated equally, but you hear very little about how once the slaves were free, women still were not allowed to vote until another 50 years or so. I think more people, like myself, need to be more educated about the fact that women make history too, and to think about who is writing the history books.