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Intelligence Squared · 2025-08-21 · 41 min · 6,089 words

Who are the Hidden Women who Shaped our Economic History? With Victoria Bateman

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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorenti. Who are the wealth creators? In today's episode, Victoria Bateman shows that the standard image of heroic male entrepreneurs or investors could not be more misleading. Drawing on her longer history,

economica. Bateman speaks to host Caroline Dodds Pannock about the unsung female industrialists and workers who are missing from conventional economic histories and how women have been at the center of economic development from the birth of farming to the advent of computing. Let's join our host, Caroline Dodds-Pennock, with more. Welcome to Intelligence Squared. I'm Caroline Dodds-Pennock.

Our guest today is Dr. Victoria Bateman. Victoria is an economic historian Who spent 20 years teaching economic history at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge? She's published books on economic history, feminist economics, and gender inequality, including the critically acclaimed Naked Feminism, Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty.

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