I never bought into the feminist claims of society keeping women down. An elderly woman in my neighborhood as known as "Docky" because she was an MD (graduated before 1900). Most of the women in my neighborhood were married mothers, but we did have a sprinkling of independent career women. The amazing thing is that nobody treated them badly or made fun of them or tried to repress or oppress them. They were just part of the neighborhood, as much as anyone.

It really saddens me when I hear young anti-feminists who will claim that there was a time when feminism was needed, for getting the vote and the right to have a credit card in one's own name - completely uneducated about the fact that most women in the early 20th century weren't in favor of female suffrage, or that it was married women who couldn't get credit card in their own names - because husbands were liable for wives debts.

You might find a You Tube video by History Debunked quite interesting, it's about how women doctors have made medical care much more difficult to access:

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