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leftyladyfrommo

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10. My BA is in Anthropology 1969. Useless at that

Reply to Walleye (Reply #9)

Wed Jun 22, 2022, 03:13 PM

Jun 2022

time. Male archeologists and professors did not women in the field.

You went to college. Got a degree in something you loved and then got out and got a job as a secretary, a teacher, a nurse. A librarian. Those were our choices. Men didn't want women in their fields except as secretaries or general office help.

That's why so many people got married. The choices were so bad.

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Very good article. I do remember all that. Any young woman in the Walleye Jun 2022 #1

I don't think I lived in fear. I learned to be very street leftyladyfrommo Jun 2022 #6

It's all so true. I can see why young women don't believe it. Walleye Jun 2022 #7

Those were the good old days. But I think what leftyladyfrommo Jun 2022 #8

Oh, I know, as for myself, being sort of ADHD Walleye Jun 2022 #9

My BA is in Anthropology 1969. Useless at that leftyladyfrommo Jun 2022 #10

Oh I know, I got married and divorced Walleye Jun 2022 #11

KnR Hekate Jun 2022 #2

There are a lot of female DU'ers who have talked about this many times here on DU. llmart Jun 2022 #3

That is my experience. I think most young women of the time Walleye Jun 2022 #4

You just got good at discouraging bosses and professors without losing jobs or grades womanofthehills Jun 2022 #12

This is what's at stake Johnny2X2X Jun 2022 #5

Politicans sat back and did nothing because it was "settled". BradAllison Jun 2022 #13

There's really no such thing as "settled law." PlanetBev Jun 2022 #14

My daughter wanted me to go see "Bombshell" with her LNM Jun 2022 #15

It's like someone else was living my life. nt Samrob Jun 2022 #16