When I was at University, I took old-fashioned Women’s Studies. We used to study things like the ways women become disadvantaged in society, how girls were educated and socialised, and what society needed to do for girls to give them better opportunities to thrive.
Feminists used to look at the cultural messages girls were given about themselves and their future lives and how these could limit girls’ understanding of what they could do in life.
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