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Posts tagged ‘Richard Yates’

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Apr

“The Easter Parade”

I say,….Straight ahead. No Looking back; no looking sideways – ….Straight ahead.

When our nation celebrated it’s bicentennial nearly 40 years ago in 1976, the country was in the midst of a major shift in gender rights. Although the feminist movement began to gain momentum in the 1970’s and the United Nations had just declared the decade 1976 – 1985 as the UN Decade for Women, the reality was that women were still unable to break through the glass ceiling in certain fields and only earned 62% of what men earned making them either dependent upon men or limited economically. Read more »