Seven women who changed the world

[shenmue]

Story here

Article and photos at link.

[marym625]

1. K&R!

Great article

[Warpy]

2. I would argue that Margaret Sanger belongs there

since she championed the right (and the idea) that women should be able to control how many children they had. That was world changing.

Billie Jean King just won a tennis game against a fading playboy ex champ.

[PassingFair]

6. I took one of my daughters and a friend of hers to an "American Girl"...

suffragette re-creation day at Greenfield Village.

We had a great time, rode in a Model T, wore big hats, visited period
houses ...

The day culminated in a short bus ride for a "Votes for Women" rally.
While on the bus, we were asked by the guide, "What single invention most freed women
from lives of household drudgery?"

I blurted out "the Birth Control Pill". Silence and glares from the other mothers....

The tour guide said, "I was thinking of the washing machine..."

[Warpy]

7. The tour guide should have stood there in shame

but I don't suppose she was educated enough to be capable of it.

A lot of these younger types have no clue what a nightmare it was for women who had pregnancy forced on them year after year with no way to feed or care for the children they produced, exhausted and dead of old age in their 30s. That was what the condom, diaphragm with spermicide, pill and IUD saved us from. The washing machine just saved a little time.

[mountain grammy]

3. Glad to see these 7 women honored

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but the headline should read "Seven of the millions of women who change the world and we will honor 7 every week for infinity"