Rachel Wilson

More women actually probably had the opportunity to go than men because men always had to work in the fields and the mines, go to war, build the infrastructure of the nation, work on railroads, you know.

So women were seen as like, well, you're going to be teaching the kids.

So you should probably do a little extra education, whereas Jimmy and Billy, they need to work the farm with dad, you know.

So there was never any law that prohibited women from higher education.

What happens, what feminists do, they rely on framing.

So they'll say because there weren't co-ed universities, because it was women's universities and then men had separate ones, it was mostly segregated.

They'll say women didn't have equal access to education.

Were the better schools men's schools?

No.

No.

In fact, I'd say so.

I guess you could say some there were a handful of Ivy League institutions that didn't let women into certain programs.

But it was mostly like medical stuff, things like that.

And that had already changed before the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Women were already being led into Ivy League education, being allowed to do biology and medicine.

and become doctors.

Many of the women in my book who were first wave suffragists had degrees, had educations.

The other one is like women weren't allowed to leave the house.

They weren't allowed to, you know, sex out of wedlock or children out of wedlock.

Oh, my gosh, it was so terrible.