I'm sure it has something to do with ticking off another year, but I've been thinking a lot about women's history. Well, recent history anyway.
When I was in Jr. high for instance, which really wasn't THAT long ago, my Mom could not buy her own house. A bank would not give her loan because she was a single mother. Now, you get all sorts of breaks if your a single mom! In the 60's, a woman couldn't get a credit card, serve on a jury and earned .59 to the dollar if they worked. And it wasn't until sometime in the 70's that a woman could keep her job if she was pregnant. Not to mention that sexual harassment wasn't identified as a crime until 1980! That all seems so preposterous now, doesn't it? It wasn't until 1969 that women were allowed at Yale and Harvard didn't accept women until 1970!!! What?!?!
Women's rights, world wide are still lacking. Even in our own country, women only earn .77 cents to a man's dollar, which is just so stupid. But still, we've come a long way. If you're under or around 30, you should think about that every once in awhile.
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