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[–]MarkTwainiac 21 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Addams, I think it's worse than that. Girls & women were never a "protected class" - all we got for a very short while was recognition that we were/are a distinct class of people who no longer should be deprived of civil/human rights.

For a very brief period in human history "sex" was a protected characteristic in the anti-discrimination laws of a small number of Western "democracies." But women have never been a protected class in any country on earth at any time in history.