Week of September 23: Response to Linnea

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 Hello Linnea, I found your final sentence very intriguing. Throughout history, it seems that everything that a man does is pointed out while the woman’s accomplishments are pushed to the side. I think that nowadays we don’t have as much of it but it is still there. I think this has to do with the fact of how people viewed women in the past and how that has been changing throughout the years.


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