often ask myself,” she begins, “if women had always been taught to paint, sculpt, publish, report, write, calculate, translate, and experiment, what kind of world would we live in now? “And how will we ever know the contribution of women to the great scientific and cultural achievements of the past? What about the women who were instrumental in listening, editing, advising, inspiring, recording, and assisting famous men? Women who have been written out of history, their contributions unrecorded and unvalued. “I put it to you that a country is only truly democratic if opportunity is not
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