About Today:: Myths of Women's History 3/7/11

From Jen Hubley, your About Today Editor When I was a girl, I knew several things for sure about women's history: Women who wanted the vote called themselves suffragettes, feminists in the '60s burned their bras, and by the 1980s, inequality was pretty much all over and things were totally fair. Needless to say, I was wrong about all of it.

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