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A Telling Footnote in the History of Women's Rights

on Mon, 2019-01-28 21:17

This January 2019 piece by Amanda Foreman reveals just how ancient and bitter this struggle for women's rights can be:

"What [these women] want is complete freedom...Once they have achieved equality, they will be your masters."  -- Cato the Elder in 195 B.C., defending a law being repealed that had banned women from owning a half ounce of gold.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/unenforceable-laws-against-pleasure-1154834...

Complicated and requiring EQ, the struggle continues today.