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Many professions for women have revolved around bearing and raising children. In recent memory, women were not encouraged by men to leave the home and to make the family her primary focus. Men were the breadwinners and their place in society inviolate and sacrosanct. These social mores were not to be trifled with, and if broken, the consequences would be nothing less than social ostracism and eternal damnation. Women were not educated or as well-trained as men; most universities did not matriculate women well into the early 1900's. Women did not have the right to own property or to vote. S...
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