23 It Wasn't Me, It Was All The Reading

Watch out, Sandi's got a book in her hand! If she were alive a couple of hundred years ago, she would have been deemed 'dangerous' for this. Surely, reading is one of the few pursuits where it's impossible to get into any trouble - unless you're doing it whilst driving I suppose? 

Not only was it thought a reading woman was a danger to the very fabric of society, but it was also thought that it would affect their reproductive abilities, or even give them flatulence ... although the latter is a rather excellent excuse don't you think? Opps sorry, not my fault, I was reading over the weekend. 

We all know what a struggle women have had (and still continue to have in many parts of the world) to have access to an education, so those who enabled females to have learning should be celebrated, and in today's episode you'll get to hear about Harriet E Giles and Sophia B Packard, who made it their lives work to improve lives of women who had been freed from slavery through schooling...what a heartbreaking sentence. 

Take care... We Will Get Past This. 

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