 In fact, women art historians are one of two groups (besides authors of high-school texbooks) "who say there have been great women artists" in the first place, according to the authors of a study of the representations of women artists in US textbooks.In the United States professional, academic employment for women art historians was, by the early 1970s, not commensurate with the number of female PhDs in art history.Between 1960 and 1969, 30.1% of PhDs were awarded to women but those numbers increased significantly during that period