Shakespeare's sisters - women in history erased, ignored, jailed, institutionalized

[KitSileya]

"Absences of women in history don’t 'just happen,' they are made." queereyes-queerminds

- Women in combat: "Women have not lived in a protective bubble untouched by combat for all of history. Women have been killed, wounded, and captured in combat, and tortured after. We are not living a world where these are hypothetical situations women have yet to prove they can handle. Unfortunately, they have, they can, in the future, they probably will, again and again. Soviet women served as partisans, snipers, tank drivers, fighter pilots, bombers. And more."

But after the wars, Rosie the riveter was thrown out of her job and told men deserved her job more. And women soldiers were certainly invisibilized - integrated AA units in WWII were more efficient than all-male ones, but we still hear that women in combat would harm the army. In the Soviet Union, the name for front line female soldiers became synonymous with 'whore', and female veterans had to hide their medals and never talk about their experiences.
http://themarysue.tumblr.com/post/91997117099/tamorapierce-doctorscienceknowsfandom

- “A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: “There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the ’50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up.”
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Stephen Scobie, on the Naropa Institute’s 1994 tribute to Allen Ginsberg
http://bonesbuckleup.tumblr.com/post/91667005677/a-woman-from-the-audience-asks-why-were-there-so

Do you have other examples of this throughout history?