Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Be!

[lunatica]

3. When John Adams was the American Ambassador and then President

Abigail Adams ran the farm quite well and raised all the children by herself.

The idea that women needn't think or worry their little heads about issues because they had a man to take care of them was prevalent. Women who had no husband, father or brother to 'take care' of them were ignored.

Women ran the farms whenever their husbands went to war, which has been the case many times in this country, but it was never acknowledged as being of any value.

I took women's history in college. It truly opened my eyes, even though I was a long time feminist. I returned to college in my late 40s and was a feminist since I was in my 20s.