How Does the Work of Feminist Historical Gerda Lerner, in the Creation

Multiple Choice

How does the work of feminist historical Gerda Lerner, in The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) , explain why women have been largely absent from historical accounts?

A) history has been written by men, primarily, who have recorded what men have done and deemed to be significant
B) women have not played a very significant role in history due to their social roles, but this is changing.
C) written accounts of women's contributions in history were lost during the Second World War but are now being discovered
D) women have historically devalued their own contributions, rendering them less likely to be passed on either in stories or in writing