Cheddar gets a look at Curiosity Stream's 'Ascent of Woman.'

Cheddar Reveals

The Ascent of Women

And let's start with, this is groundbreaking docuseries for the first time ever, a docuseries charts the role of women in society from the dawn of civilization to the modern day. And what it finds is that the history of women is hardly a straight line. The status of women is often a spot on a barometer of a society's tolerance, fairness and openness curiosity stream finds out more in the ascent of women. Take a look. Yeah, mm hmm. Mhm. There has never been a better time to be born a woman. There are more female heads of government and more women leading organizations and running businesses than at any other time in history. Yet in many parts of the world, women do not enjoy the same legal rights as men. They are relegated to unequal spheres without access to education or employment and for many, the right to live free from physical and sexual violence is still a dream. My name is Amanda foreman and as a historian and biographer, I have spent my career studying women's lives. The simple truth is that our story has never followed a straight line from darkness to light. The real history of women is one of swings and reversion that liberty has gained and lost from one era and one society to the next. I also think that you can judge a civilization by the way it treats its women and the degree to which women have authority agency and autonomy in this series. I want to retell the story of civilization with men and women side by side for the first time. And in so doing, I'll ask some difficult questions. Why did history become almost exclusively male? Why has almost every civilization set limits on women's sexuality, speech and freedom of movement and what makes the status of women so vulnerable to the dictates of politics, economics, or religion. But it will also be a celebration of the women who have confronted these limits and created their own routes to power from empress wu china's only ever female emperor and Christine to prison. The first feminist to the revolutionary women of France, Russia and beyond. Well, look at the women who wrote their own history to change the world and to those who think that women haven't played an active role in history or that ours is simply a mindless narrative of oppression? I want to throw down the gauntlet because I believe that any history of the world that excludes women or simply pushes them to the margins isn't just a distortion, but an untruth that must be challenged. You can watch the ascent of women everywhere. You get curiosity stream, want more top tier content on science, nature, history and the environment. We'll stay curious and head over to curiosity stream dot com to sign up today.