I was with you until you wrote "most of the world's progress and inovation is due to males." Easy to ignore people like Florence Nightingale. Mr Rogers was once talking about ways to ease children's fears about things like the 9/11 terrorist attack.
He said for each bad person, alot of good people come to help those who need it. It sounds silly maybe, but I keep it in mind.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.