The Silencing of Women

Although Mary Beard is a famous historian, she’s often in the middle of the global conversation on gender roles and women and power. Beard is a professor of classics at the University of Cambridge and the author of several books, including Women and Power and How Do We Look. She explores how women have been silenced throughout history—and why we still are today. Her work—and perhaps even more so, her personal life—suggests ways we might all speak up and change the culture of power.