Well-behaved women rarely make history

This past week, we read an article on women and their resistance to the imposed communist culture in Russia. This article, to me, was one of the most interesting we have read during the course. I'm not a mega-feminist or anything, but it does truly bother me how historians tend to overlook women in their research and writing. During my four years of historical study, almost everything that I have read has been written by white males about white males, with very few exceptions; this is intensely frustrating to me, especially since there is more to the history of this planet than this perspective and this subject.
Recently, however, it seems as if this pervading monopoly over scholarly articles and books is being broken up; by recently, I mean within only the past couple decades or so. The problem is that graduate students of history would more often than not follow the same scholarship as their advisors, who likely followed the scholarship of their advisors, and so on and so forth. Therefore, the study of history remained static, not undergoing much change. Starting in the 60s and 70s, however, one sees a turning point where scholarship began to shift and focus on women and minorities, shedding light on contributors to human history that had been theretofore ignored, their voices kept silent (as an example, pervading scholarshuip up until the 1960s touted that slaves actually enjoyed being enslaved. Obviously not the case). African Americans and women had broken onto the scene and started researching and writing about the history of their race and gender, respectively. This strongly influenced the kind of scholarship being published, permanently and significantly changing the face of historical study forever, and for the better. It is this shift that allows us to read things like that published by Brovkin who likely came out of this time of change, whose book from which our reading was taken having been published in 1998.
Knowing that the impact of women in history is being taken seriously helps me feel a touch better about how my sex has been supressed and oppresed for the past few hundred years, that we are making our comeback slowly but surely by these historians showing how we have been significant, not just in Soviet Russia, but also as we discussed with the womens' march on Paris that helped trigger the French Revolution, or the women actively pushing for suffrage in Britain, changing social dynamics, the women who bolstered the Enlightenment through their salons, being key contributors to the success and strength of the movement itself. I am very thankful for this new scholarship and I see it as a sign of things to come, that massive holes in our history as the human race will be filled by people shedding light on more than just white, male history. It is almost like an Enlightenment in and of itself.