Unfair Expectations Of Successful Women

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Unfair Expectations Of Successful Women

’d love to think that every woman in power has the jurisdiction to end all misogyny. Or at least all misogyny in her industry. I’d love to think that she’s ready to kick down doors, offend people, ostracize people, destroy relationships, and get some pretty bad PR, all in the name of fighting misogyny.

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Barber-Scotia College is a coed liberal arts school founded by the Presbyterian Church in July 1867 by Reverend Luke Dorland as Scotia Seminary. Reverend Dorland was commissioned by the Presbyterian Church to create an institution to train black women in programs of elementary, secondary and normal

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