What are excluded women?

Excluded women are women who weren't counted or included in something they should have been part of.

Imagine you're playing a game where everyone gets to choose a toy from the box, but some kids are told they can’t pick anything, even though the rules say everyone gets a turn. That’s what happens with excluded women.

Think of it like this: there's a big party, and all the guests get to eat cake. But some ladies were told they couldn't come in, not because they didn’t want to, but because no one remembered to invite them. So when we count how many people ate cake, those ladies aren’t counted, even though they should have been there.

When women are excluded from things like jobs, votes, or stories about history, we don’t know all the ways they helped shape the world. It’s like telling a story about building a house, but only mentioning the men who worked on it, not the women who also helped.