Posted by jane d on December 21, 2013, at 16:12:53 [reposted on December 23, 2013, at 0:37:26 | original URL]
In reply to Re: Lou's reply-- Lou's Little Shoppe-, posted by Willful on December 19, 2013, at 12:00:45
> But as I'm sure you know historically women have received far less education-- or no education-- by the way, this still goes on in many countries--
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> and had far fewer opportunites to have experiences, to have access to publication, to be able to develop their ideas-- or even access to a milieu where they were involved in the production of ideas-- they have been barred acess to occupations, positions, etc
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> So it's hardly a mystery why they're produced far less philosophy, literature, etc than men.
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> Even today, the same paper, or identical resumes, presented as a man's and a women's yields far more and far better publications and job offers for the man than for the woman. So it's not that the harms are in the far distant past. And anyway, at what point do you think women started to be accepted to law schools, medical schools, the top academic institutions of the country?
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> Do you have a clear sense of the history here?
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> I dont know about Australia, but I do know about the US-- and these things happened in the very very recent past. Maybe you need to read a bit about hese things. It might change your sense of your historic situation.
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I just saw this quote in the obituary of Janet Rowland who helped find basis of cancer in genetic mutations."After receiving her bachelors degree at 19, she was accepted to the universitys medical school but was told she would have to wait nine months to enroll: the school had already accepted its quota of women for the year three in a class of 65. "
That would have been at Chicago in about 1945.
That's a little before my time but not so much. It certainly shaped who was available to teach me 30 years ago. And that has in turn shaped who is available for students to be taught by and look up to even now. And things have changed tremendously for the better in the last 30 years.
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