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Women's Rights & Issues

niyad

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1. Thank you for sharing this depressing, but sadly unsurprising, information.

Reply to ancianita (Original post)

Mon Mar 27, 2023, 11:07 AM

Mar 2023

Dr. Dale Spender wrote "Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done To Them" years ago, talking about this, and worse, simply burying their ideas and knowledge. One cannot help but wonder where the world would be now without patriarchy.

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The Matilda Effect [View all] ancianita Mar 2023 OP

Thank you for sharing this depressing, but sadly unsurprising, information. niyad Mar 2023 #1

Welcome. It's sad, but something men on DU need to be more aware of. ancianita Mar 2023 #3

I am in awe of your own story! For many years, I had nearly all of Dr. Spender's niyad Mar 2023 #4

I didn't know there was a name for it, but it's not surprising at all. -nt CrispyQ Mar 2023 #2