Most of the survivors of the Titanic sinking in 1912 were women and children.
When women recounted what they saw and heard – the ship splitting in two as it sank – this was written off as mass hysteria of traumatized women because “ships sank all in one piece.”
It took 73 years for those women to be vindicated, and their stories validated once the wreck of the RMS Titanic was discovered on the sea floor.
Society has come a long way since then and there is a bigger push to believe women’s stories. Especially in the past couple of decades.
How do we normalize trust and credibility to women’s stories?
We keep telling them.
For 73 years, Titanic survivors stuck to their original retelling, despite being written off or being called hysterical.
And the rest of us should do the same.
It is easier than ever for women business leaders to author and publish books, and to reach a wide audience with their stories and voice.
If we keep raising our voices and telling our stories, people will listen.
Women’s knowledge and expertise will be seen, respected, and valued.
More than that, it will be memorialized in print and on bookshelves.
History, when broken down, is literally “His” “Story.”
And that’s how many societies and cultures have been shaped. Off of men’s stories, experiences, and accounts.
I think it’s time we write Herstory.
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