Scholarship can mean serious academic study and learning, or it can mean money given to a student to help pay for their education.
Formed from “scholar” plus the suffix “-ship” indicating a state or quality. It first meant “the status or work of a scholar” and later also came to mean financial support for students.
The same word covers both deep knowledge and the money that helps you chase that knowledge. It shows how society had to invent a way to fund brains, not just buildings.
Scholarship as a domain historically centered male authors, with women’s and marginalized scholars’ work under-cited or published in less prestigious venues. This created a skewed record of whose ideas counted as ‘serious’ scholarship.
Treat scholarship from all genders as equally valid; avoid implying that certain topics (e.g., care work, domestic life) are less scholarly because they have been associated with women.
["academic work","research","funding grant (in financial sense)"]
Recognizing and citing the scholarship of women and gender minorities helps repair historical citation gaps and acknowledges their intellectual leadership.
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