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Gayle Barron, who won the Boston Marathon for women in 1978, once said that she struggled with being a pioneer. Not so much because of men's attitudes, but because her women friends thought she ought to be at home with her family, in "a woman's place," in other words. Her friends didn't celebrate her successes. Worse still, they disapproved. She wonders how much she held back from achieving her true potential, for the sake of keeping her friends.

Yes, that was 1978. Have things really c...