Including women in history education is so important: for girls to see themselves in the past, and for boys, the encounter with individual women is key for countering and breaking down harmful ideas about women and girls.
Also, failing to include half the population robs everyone of the chance to develop a real understanding of societies in the past.
Joseph Lawson is a historian of modern China at Newcastle University.
He has published widely on a range of topics including inter-group violence in the Southwest, the Opium War, and environmental history.
His current research focuses on teachers in China and Taiwan, and examines the rapid rise of women in teaching in both places after the 1940s.