wheels of change-the bicycle and women's rights

[Warpy]

1. I don't think you can overstate the bicycle's importance to women

They no longer had to take a horse away from plowing and hitch it to a wagon or buggy to go into town. They no longer had to nag a husband to get them out of isolation to visit another woman for an hour or two. The freedom to go where they wanted to go when they wanted to can't be overstated.

Men, of course, felt horribly threatened, as the above ad shows.

I imagine a lot of the butter, egg and knitted glove money went to that bicycle.