How women have been erased from history, politics and the workplace

In a recent piece for Huffington Post, Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani looked at recent and historical instances of women being erased.

From boardrooms to politics -- and this month, history. This past Sunday, heads of state gathered in Paris to march in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings. The image was shared around the world showing countries' leaders united in stoic defiance of terrorism. But it was another image altogether that stoked controversy. Conservative Orthodox Jewish newspaper HaMevaser ('The Announcer') stands accused of Photoshopping out German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, EU Foreign Affairs and Security Chief Frederica Mogherini, and cropping out Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt.

Thousands of miles away, women were being erased in an even more shocking way. In Nigeria, 2,000 men women and children were slaughtered by terrorist group Boko Haram. This follows on from the group's kidnapping of 185 women and girls at the end of December, and the kidnapping of over 300 just last summer. Women. Young girls. Literally being erased from view.