Where Are the Women Writers? (ASME Edition)

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Fri April 06, 2012

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Mother Jones

Where Are the Women Writers? (ASME Edition)

Predicting Our Future

In the early days of the women's movement, what did people expect to see by 1984--or 2014? What would they say?

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