The book proposal

[Eva Elisabeth]

(11-14-2013 06:45 PM)My Name Is Kate Wrote:  It sounds like women were no more citizens of this country than slaves. They didn't have the right to vote, rarely if ever held office, were employed only in the lowest occupations if at all, and were basically the property of their husbands, producing on average about a dozen children each, about half of whom often died in infancy. And children had no rights at all. Sure glad I didn't live in those days.

Well, Kate, just one more aside (referring to your last sentence): The fist time women were allowed to study law at Harvard was in 1950 (although the first woman applied in 1870!) and at Washington and Lee University in 1972, just two examples. Sometimes, those days seem not too far away.