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wnylib

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6. Thanks for making that point.
Tue Dec 20, 2022, 01:45 AM
Dec 2022

I have the movie, Suffragette, about women in Britain striking for the right to vote. Their treatment was brutal - arrests, beatings, abandonment by their husbands, taking their children away from them as punishment.

And yet, today, British women vote.

I remember civil rights protests of the 1960s, when dogs and hoses were turned on protesters for daring to exercise their rights as citizens to vote, eat in restaurants, go to public beaches, etc. And their leader was assassinated. But less than 50 years later, we had a Black president. Didn't eliminate racism, but was an achievement compared to the pre civil rights era.

Jobs used to be listed in classified sections of newspapers by gender. Most of the professional jobs were male. Most of the non professional jobs were female. Now we have a female VP who is also a woman of color.

You don't get change with defeatism. You get it with persistence.

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