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An interesting article in DN about the lack of women in our history books. The article is written by several Swedish historians. I am sure that the trend is the same in other parts of the world as well. There have been a lot of strong, important women in history. But the world was always run by men and somehow women stayed in the background. Now they want to make all these women visible. There are a lot of research that shows that women have been in powerful positions running countries, government, estates, farms, trading houses etc for several centuries. However, these new facts are not visible in the school books and the publishers do not want to pay for re-writing the history books. Therefore the school children in Sweden still only learns about "middle age men with power, from Sten Sture to Gustav Vasa, via Axel Oxenstierna and Carl XIV Johan to Per Albin Hansson and Olof Palme." Through a re-write we could learn that there have been a lot of women ever since the Mi...